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Bowling for dollars is indeed big business. Notre Dame and Colorado each picked up $4.1 million at the Orange Bowl. The Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences earned $5.5 each at the Rose Bowl. A play-off would mean even more money, but for only a few teams. Two years ago, Division I schools voted 98-13 against the idea...
Economy Minister Antonio Erman Gonzalez called it "a week of economic terror." That was no exaggeration, even in a country where economic scare stories are all too common. Among the latest horrors: a sudden year-end collapse of the value of the austral, which plunged from 1,200 to the U.S. dollar to 2,000 before markets closed for the New Year, and price rises of as much as 100% as rumors circulated that the value of Argentina's national currency might be halved again. Shell-shocked citizens waited for Erman, the third Economy Minister since President Carlos Saul Menem...
...Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto: "It's very unlikely that home prices will rush ahead in the next two years. It's not a crash scenario, but I don't see prices being pushed much higher." In the topsy- turvy world of the '90s, even the Golden State will endure a changing fortune...
...Impact is at least partly a public relations gambit, since GM supports more conventional methods of reducing auto emissions. Even so, the company is preparing for the day when smog-choked motorists may decide they prefer whirring electric vehicles to roaring roadsters...
From atop a windswept hill, the panoramic landscape looks eerily beautiful -- and yet completely hostile to life. Even at the height of summer, the scene is one of frigid desolation. To the west lies a saltwater bay whose surface is frozen solid. Beyond the bay loom glittering glaciers and towering, rocky peaks. On the south and east rises a blinding white shelf of permanent ice, so thick that it grinds against the seabed far below. And to the north is a snow- covered volcano that continuously belches noxious fumes. This is the bottom of the world, where winds can reach...