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...world's largest version of the landmark American fast-food chain rang up 30,000 meals on 27 cash registers, breaking the opening-day record for McDonald's worldwide, officials said...
TAKE the case of the Swedish ship-building industry. Twenty years ago, it was one of Sweden's largest industries. Today, it is almost nonexistent. The Swedes realized that the long-term competitiveness of ship-building was at risk, so they switched to making other things. That's how the free market is supposed to work...
America's best effort at social welfare provision is its programs for the elderly. Social Security and Medicare are two of the largest items in the federal budget. But compare the U.S. to Sweden. In the U.S., about one in eight elderly persons are poor. In Sweden, the figure is a little less than...
AMHERST, Mass.--University of Massachusetts astronomers want to seek the mystery of the birth of stars, and say building the world's largest millimeter wave radio telescope will give them that ability...
...have been rising in greedy anticipation. Shares in Offshore Logistics, which leases helicopters to offshore drillers, rose from $2 a share to $12 last year. A less oblique sign is that the U.S. is back to importing fully 46% of its oil, or 7.9 million bbl. a day, the largest percentage in ten years. Domestic production of crude oil recorded its biggest decline ever last year, falling to a 26-year...