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Long before David Beckham and Ben Affleck extolled the virtues of exfoliating moisturizers, Harvard students were debating the merits of various fashion trends. In recent years, male vanity has taken a decidedly upward turn...
...kept overall manufacturing costs down, and companies have absorbed higher costs to keep their goods affordable in the jobless recovery. But new jobs are finally being created, which means more consumers can accept higher prices. Meanwhile, a surge in demand for raw goods--led by China--is adding to upward pressure on prices. Last week's inflation announcement "was a watershed report," says Mark Zandi of Economy.com He believes the uptick marks the end of 25 years of falling inflation and the onset of a long cycle--that may last perhaps 10 years--of gently rising consumer prices...
...coalition, which has shrunk over the past week as Spain was joined by Honduras and the Dominican Republic in announcing its troops would be leaving. It's not yet over, but April has been the bloodiest month of the war, with some 93 coalition troops and upward of 1,000 Iraqis killed in clashes in the Sunni Triangle and the Shiite neighborhoods of the capital and some of the southern cities. Wednesday's terror attack in Basra that killed 68 Iraqis underscored the sense of security unraveling signaled by everything from a rash of kidnappings of foreigners to the admission...
...indicator, the global economy continues to gain momentum. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, which perked up last month after yet another research group forecast a recovery in 2004, is up 70% from a year ago (though still below its 52-week peak in January). On the heels of upward predictions by IDC and IC Insights, Gartner revised its estimates of global chip sales to call for a 23%-to-32% surge this year, but the boom probably won't last long. Gartner's latest report also lowered its 18% growth forecast...
...immigrants into the mainstream.” The same cannot be said of most American cultural elites in 2004. One need look no further than their unrepentant support for bilingual education. It is now clear to all but the fiercest ideologues that bilingual education has hindered Latinos’ upward mobility. But those who dare question its effect on immigrant families are continually smeared as racists...