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...Tell that to those still planning their winter vacations. Locals in Phuket, from hawkers to hotel managers, say tourists, spooked by the thought of a vacation in a disaster zone, have avoided the holiday mecca. Beaches crowded before Christmas with several thousand sun worshippers?and whose euros and dollars and renminbi directly or indirectly support 70% of the local population?now play host to just a few hundred. Hotel occupancy has plummeted from the usual 90% to just 10-15%. International carriers?including Thai Airways?have canceled some direct flights to the island. It's now possible to spend...
...That, Gaymard hopes, will stimulate economic growth that, at 2.3% in 2004, was below government estimates of 2.5%. Surprisingly, Gaymard is predicting the same for this year. "Given commodity prices like oil rising, we should count on lower growth next year, not higher," says David Naudé, senior euro-zone economist for Deutsche Bank in Paris, which forecasts 2% in 2005. Gaymard's other idea for encouraging growth: sparking consumer spending with his tax cuts. Sounds like supply-side thinking, American style. Merge or Purge? The consumer-products industry seems to be on a binge-purge cycle. After Procter & Gamble...
...Ackermann and Manelick weren't the victims of random violence, the investigative command turned the cases over to its Major Procurement Fraud Unit. Spokesman Chris Grey says the probe has been slowed because of the "complexities of this case" and the difficulties of collecting evidence in a war zone. --By Douglas Waller
...past decade has seen increasing numbers of men pursuing a muscular body which, if not sculpted to Schwarzenegger proportions, would hopefully never land them the title of “girlie man.” This quest can dip into the danger zone, however, as perceptions of one’s body and ideals of attractiveness become warped. This is especially true in Western countries, as was evidenced by a research team led by the Harvard undergraduate Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang ’05 in a study published last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Comparing Taiwanese...
...Penn and Princeton. The fast, strong guards of the Quakers kept on his heels all game, holding him to three points in Harvard’s loss, while he scored a team-high 17 in the Crimson’s successful effort to combat Princeton’s matchup zone...