Health experts' biggest worry in China right now, beyond the crisis in Beijing, is the possibility that the SARS virus will storm through the country's hinterlands, where medical facilities are in no shape for stopping it.
It is not at all hard to see why Billy Pearson, the jockey, art expert, big-time television quiz show winner, bon vivant and gallery owner who died at 82 on Thanksgiving Day, attracted the friendship and admiration of people like the director John Huston, the singer Andy Williams, the actor Sterling Hayden and the columnist Herb Caen, not to mention the six women Mr. Pearson married.
And finally, even experts with big gardens think carefully about where to put a buddleia.
When it comes to cars for teenagers, safety experts agree, big and boring are best.
Most independent experts see big deficits stretching to 2010, or beyond.
At the session on Thursday, there will be presentations by scientists who are experts in big data computing.
EFFICIENCY experts break big problems into small ones to solve them, and so, by training, he noted the little detail.
The figures show that Germany is a "tax haven" for these companies, he says.Tax experts at big firms dispute his findings, blaming assorted one-off adjustments for painting a false picture.
But according to banking experts, one big result is likely to be that those banks will also raise the costs of loans of all kinds, including corporate loans, mortgages and credit cards.
