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...their least-fertile days. But abstinence is a tough sell and people, it seems, aren?t buying it. The country's population is growing at a rate of about 2.3% per year, outpacing increases in agricultural production and economics gains. Poor families, like Bing's, are growing fastest. The country's poorest residents have an average of six children. The richest, meanwhile, have two. And it's not simply a matter of choice. Asked how many children they'd like to have, Philippine women, rich and poor, say they'd like two. Bing's neighbor, Sheryl, was one of those...
...rookie campaign is already quite long. In the indoor IC4A Championships, he provisionally qualified in the 3K for the NCAA Championships with a dauntingly quick time of 8:04.72. The time was good enough for second place at the IC4A event and also made him the second fastest true freshman in the nation—third among all rookies—and put him just under eight seconds behind Ian Carswell ’97’s school record, which he set in his senior season. “It was something that I knew Dan had the potential...
...Prime Minister from 1983 to 1989 and as President from 1989 to 1993, famously declared that his dream was for Turkey to become "a little America." And he wasn't talking about liberty. Today, Turkey is home to Europe's youngest population, and one of the world's fastest-growing consumer markets with brands like Starbucks, Topshop and Ikea booming. One brand manager told me that in his view, the country's shopping malls (60 new ones opening this year) are "paved with gold...
...each winner's times in the three big races and projected Big Brown's Belmont time, on the basis of his results in the first two races, he would finish second to Secretariat. You can't bet on that--track conditions vary, for one--but here are the five fastest Triple Crown times and where Big Brown could stack...
Like Cook, most people who start businesses don't take big risks because they don't have a lot to risk when they're getting started. Consider the history of the U.S.'s fastest-growing firms: 73% of them were started with less than $100,000 in capital. That's clearly in Cook's "go back to work, and pay off the credit card" range. And contrary to what most people imagine, most new businesses are not started with risky, new-to-the-world ideas like those of eBay and Google, which promise to transform the way we buy things...