Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Oct 20, 2011

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(1) Liza Lin, Why Harley Can't Rev Up in China. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Oct 20, 2011 (cover date)
http://www.businessweek.com/maga ... 26amp%3b+industries
("Harley sold 268 motorcycles in China last year * * * and aims to double that this year. The House of Harley-Davidson dealership in Milwaukee sold 'more than 500' bikes in 2010, sales manager Goran Zadrima says. Honda Motor (HMC), which sells scooters and smaller 125cc bikes used mainly outside big cities in China, delivered 1.29 million vehicles in the country last year")

(2) Charlie Rose Talks to Wipro’s Azim Premji; 'China will have to adopt some form of modified democracy.' Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Oct 20, 2011 (cover date).
http://www.businessweek.com/maga ... 26amp%3b+industries

(3) Donna Alvarado, John Rogers’s Bendable Microprocessors; The MacArthur genius’s ultrathin, bendable microprocessors are the result of a lab accident, and can be used in clothing and medicine. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Oct 20, 2011 (cover date).
http://www.businessweek.com/maga ... ssors-10202011.html

(4) Margaret Newkirk and and Frank Bass, New South Battles Old Poverty as Right-to-Work Promises Fade. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Oct 20, 2011 (cover date)
http://www.businessweek.com/news ... -promises-fade.html
("Hostility to organized labor was at the core of the region’s strategy for attracting jobs: South Carolina joined the ranks of right-to-work states in 1954, outlawing contracts that require union membership or dues")

note: right-to-work law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law


------------------------Separately
(1) Also on the table of contents of the online issue, but not on those of print edition:

What Countries—and Their Citizens—Owe. BusinessWeek.com, Oct 20, 2011
http://www.businessweek.com/maga ... +-+global+economics
("Data from the McKinsey Global Institute show that sovereign debt is only part of the debt problem. Households and banks owe, too")

My comment: What I did not know is that total debt (at 306% of GDP), as well as "business and bank debt," of S Korea are huge.