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...jobs last year, bringing the total number they employ to more than 1 million. At a time when unemployment in France is close to 10% and the government is introducing one program after another in an effort to deal with it, private-equity firms provide a rare glimmer of hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buyout Mania | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

...only glimmer of good news was the projection that the wheat crop, while plentiful, will dip by 8%, to 2.38 billion bu., its lowest level in six years. That decline will occur primarily because most wheat farmers harvested 30% fewer acres than last year in return for federal subsidies. Even after this cutback in production, wheat is selling for a mere $2.90 per bu., down sharply from a high of $4.21 in early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bountiful Harvest, Bleak Outlook | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

After more than a year of steadily worsening reports from famine-stricken Africa, there is finally a glimmer of good news. In preparation for the opening of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) biannual conference in Rome last week, Director-General Edouard Saouma announced that Africa's best rains in years were producing record harvests in some areas. As a result, only five of the 21 African countries that needed emergency food aid this year--Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Sudan--remain on the list, and in 1986 Africa will need less than half the 7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Finally, a Reason to Hope | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Edward eventually sees a glimmer of hope. He will seek out Jesse Baltram, his real father, a legendary painter who numbered Edward's mother among his many mistresses. He does not know exactly how Jesse can help him, but he feels irresistibly drawn, by a magic he claims not to believe, toward "the longed-for father, the healer, the hero-priest, the benevolent all-powerful king." No sooner does Edward conceive this idea than he receives an invitation from Jesse's wife to visit Seegard, the artist's house near a deserted stretch of English seacoast. He arrives to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mirror of Dazzling Chaos THE GOOD APPRENTICE | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Tigers still had one Ivy game left though, and the possibility of Princeton loss gave the Crimson a glimmer of hope...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Field Hockey | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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