Together This week, newspaper headlines all over the United States glumly announced that DaimlerChrysler is laying off 26,000 people. But a less prominent piece of news might have escaped the casual reader. Interestingly, nearly three-quarters of that amount was shelled out by just ten countries. Not surprisingly, the United States the world's lone superpower topped the list.
Football is arguably the most popular of professional U.S. sports.
An estimated 130 million Americans watched last weekend's Super Bowl, the national championship game. Just a week later, on February 3, the rival XFL Extreme Football League will premier. A historic look at this league might lead one to speculate on the decline of the United States. In this Read My Lips feature, we review some of their amazingly insightful and far-sighted comments that answer many current questions on globalization. Russia Comes to California One of U.S. President Bush's first acts in office was issuing an executive order forcing U.S. energy suppliers to continue selling electricity to the State of California.