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usiness is booming around one key American event: professional football's Super Bowl, which draws th

The dynasty that dominated the heart of Europe for half a millennium has designs on Europe again. Ei

It was Wilbur and Orville Wright's younger brother - so the story goes - who called the local newspa

The political left loves to prattle about the plight of the poor, but their darlings are increasingl

In India, lakes are poisoned by sewage; in Africa, rivers turn into filthy trickles; around Asia's A

Secretly, Tetsuji Kuroki despises co-worker Akio Mochizuki.Mr. Kuroki, a graduate of the pre

or all those Canadians who fret endlessly over whether their culture is distinct from that of the U

he cease-fire this week in the banana war between the European Union and the United States will be b

I recently received a student resume book from an educational institution with which I am associated

Consumers are key to the 1999 economic outlook. Their spending should keep the U.S. economy out of r

More than ever, lobbies of the afflicted are moving to influence spending on medical research, claim

Every year at this time, I get to list some of my favorite things - sort of subtle hints suggesting

I don't think the standing of the British in New York has ever been as low as it is today. I returne

The Clinton administration has developed a nasty habit of using personal tragedy to further its glob

My mom and dad grew up on small farms their Finnish immigrant parents carved out of the rocks, red c

es, you heard right. In a development that seems to fall into the man-bites-dog definition of news,

he presidential impeachment process is playing out like a Greek tragedy, its characters heading immu

In a current commercial for a luxury car, a research subject tethered to probes in a laboratory is e

Investors fear Russia. Let me count the ways.Leadership is weak. Boris Yeltsin is largely an

In a Nov. 16th op-ed article (''Does the steel industry matter?'' Page 4A), Greg Mastel, a long-time

t may seem perverse to propose a year-end vote of praise to Europe's political leaders, whose polici

Europe is saluting the imminent launch of its single currency, the euro, with a spectacular burst of

Indonesia is undergoing its worst food crisis in decades, but the millions of acres of tropical fore

Trans-Pacific container lines don't look forward to this time of year. It's no easy task to try and

The British government's decision to begin extradition hearings against former Chilean dictator Augu

Europe and the United States are ''the only games in town.'' So says U.S. Trade Representative Charl

Last week, my Sunday newspaper arrived, as usual, at the front door. As I removed the paper from its

Amartya Sen is more than just a Nobel prize winner. As master of Trinity College in England, possibl

You wonder if it's the water in Seattle.People there are up to something again.The lambs of

It is common for outsiders to disagree on China's long-term growth prospects and the current health

usiness and political leaders in New York and New Jersey should brace themselves for a sharp economi

Roughly four million Germans are out of work. The unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high for

Always ahead of the curve in anticipating change, historian-author-consultant Daniel Yergin is alrea

Our forecasts are diametrically opposed to what most strategists and financial commentators are sayi

The focus at this week's White House Conference on Social Security was on how to ''save'' the Social

MOSCOW - For some bullies, it's usually not enough to get their way. The really pathological charact

Thank you for publishing the Reuters article titled ''Colombia orders emergency rule to prop up bank

he outgoing head of the U.S. Council for International Business offered some pointed words of warnin

orty years ago this week - on Dec. 10, 1958, to be exact - the United States had its first domestic

During a period in the mid-1980s, triple-witching hours - the triple congruence of stock option, ind