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...goods Wal-Mart sells in the U.S. left American shores long ago, mainly for other countries in East Asia--Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea. Only about 10% of the firm's purchases from 2,500 suppliers in China today come from companies owned on the Chinese mainland. Andrew Tsuei, managing director in charge of Wal-Mart's global-procurement operations, says the rest come from longtime suppliers in other parts of the world that have moved their manufacturing to China in search of lower costs. That means Wal-Mart's China trade may indeed be eliminating factory jobs...
...Father of Invention In our Milestone on the passing of Andrew Toti [April 11], we mistakenly said the inflatable flotation vest (commonly known as the Mae West) was his invention. Peter Markus, who died in 1973, won the first patent for the inflatable life preserver...
More than a quarter-century after the Three Mile Island accident seemed to have sealed its fate, nuclear power has "a head of steam now that it hasn't had before," says Andrew White, head of General Electric's nuclear-energy business. Concerns about global warming and demand for electricity are growing, and prices for fossil fuels like natural gas are steadily rising. Even environmentalists like Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore and scientist James Lovelock have endorsed the once taboo energy source as a credible, clean alternative to coal- and natural-gas-powered plants...
...names in this up-to-date Ponzi scheme--Kenneth Lay, Jeff Skilling and Andrew Fastow, right--declined, perhaps understandably, to grant Gibney formal interviews, but not to worry: there's plenty of old video, and in it they are completely, utterly plausible, nicely turned out, easy in manner, born to lead mighty enterprises into uncharted territory...
...still early in the season,” said senior winger Andrew Lederman, “and we still had that young blood in us. Especially with the young guys, I think it was their energy—I think we not only matched, but surpassed [Boston College’s] energy...