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...steel company, "These constraints will have a short-term negative influence, but long-term, this is actually progress." Likewise, Japan's and Korea's giant electronics conglomerates are sanguine. Toshiba, for example, sold $1.3 billion worth of goods in China last year, so "obviously we are concerned about a drop in sales," says Junichi Nagaki, a spokesman for Toshiba. But he notes that global operations, such as Samsung, Sony and Toshiba, are diversified internationally and can weather slower sales growth in China...
Luxury tech has traditionally been limited to big-ticket items--there's a small but substantial market for $25,000 TVs, for instance, and true audiophiles can drop more than $100,000 on a speaker setup. With Sony's new Qualia line, that high-end sensibility comes to the usually mass-market world of personal electronics...
...according to Director of the International Office Sharon Ladd, this drop coincides with an increase in the number of international applications at universities in England, Canada, and Australia...
...singling out of football must come to an end. The excuses given for it are ridiculous. This spring meeting would be the perfect time for the Council to drop back but not pass on reassessing the situation...
...what triggered the warning, which was published in the British Medical Journal and is sure to fire up the tobacco lobby, was a small study out of Helena, Mont. When the city passed an ordinance banning indoor smoking in 2002, Helena's only heart hospital recorded a 40% drop in the number of heart attacks (from an average of 40 per six months to just 24 in that city of 26,000). What's more, when a court order lifted the ban half a year later, the heart-attack rate bounced right back. Dr. Robert Shepard, who wrote the Helena...