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...Zimbabwe's problems? Absolutely not. Government corruption, incompetence, high unemployment and inflation, and Mugabe's fanatical intolerance of any form of opposition would still remain. In reality, white farmers and their lands fire up emotions, but this issue does not rank among Zimbabwe's top 10 difficulties. The agricultural sector has been one of the country's few shining lights. Zimbabweans know the only solution is to get rid of their single biggest problem--President Mugabe. GAVIN MURRAY Tonbridge, England...
...greatest wild card, the sector with the vastest potential and murkiest future, is biotech. Developments that will cure cancer and extend human life beyond age 150 will arrive in this century. If one enterprise were to commercialize these developments in some proprietary way, then it's easy to imagine that firm's becoming the world's largest by far. But these are matters of life and death, so it's just as easy to imagine political pressures preventing biotech from spawning the globe's biggest company...
...that 2 percent, then the government can scale back somewhat on its guaranteed benefits on the premise that workers are more than making up for it on their own. Bush's plan is quintessentially Republican - save the government money by farming its work out to the more efficient private sector. He's hoping to sell people on the chance to handle their own retirement better and more profitably than the bureaucrats in Washington...
...While this researcher-turned-CEO prides himself on the scientific developments his firm has made while working in the commercial sector, he may ultimately need the academic community's support to become a financial success...
...even pros lose their shirts. Soros' funds ran into trouble trying to trade their way out of a loss. Robertson bullheadedly stuck too long with a concentrated position in out-of-favor value stocks. Buffett, whose stock has been edging back, refused even small exposure to an important sector: technology...