Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Mar 18, 2019

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(1) Bloomberg News, The Chinese Plane on Boeing Radar.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... -china-s-comac-c919
("C919, a narrowbody passenger plane with a capacity of about 170 that the company [COMAC] says has more than 800 orders worldwide. It will compete with the Boeing 737 Max 8—as well as the Airbus 320neo" all of which are single-aisle)

Note:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: State-owned Comac's C919 may be the big beneficiary of the American company's crisis
(ii) Print and the online version are identical.

(2) Kristen V Brown, Spit Tube, Inc.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... dna-test-spit-tubes
("in the $100 million consumer DNA-testing industry * * * a vial carrying your saliva [to the tesing company] * * * was almost certainly designed by OraSure’s subsidiary, DNA Genotek. OraSure Chief Executive Officer Stephen Tang reported profits of about $20 million on $182 million in revenue last year * * * saliva samples are extremely sensitive to time, temperature * * * OraSure's T-shaped [plastic] tubes contain a patented mix of fluid preservatives. After you spit inside, snapping the cap shut pierces a membrane containing the chemical mix. At room temperature, a sample can last in one of the tubes for more than two years, according to the company")

Note:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: Vials from OraSure subsidiary dominate the US market for this key component of consumer DNA testing
(ii) Print and the online version are identical.
(b) There is no need to read the rest.

(3) Andrew Mayeda, Is China Too Rich to Borrow from the World Bank?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... der-trump-s-nominee

Note:
(a)
(i) The online title is: China’s Tab at World Bank May Get Squeezed Under Trump's Nominee
(ii) summary underneath the title in print: David Malpass, the bank's likely next chief, calls for a focus on poorer nations
(ii) Print and the online version are identical.

(4) Bloomberg News, China's Bummed-Out Bureaucrats.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... -china-s-ministries
(paragraph 1: "For centuries, getting a job as a government bureaucrat has been the path to power and relative wealth in China. It also led, in more recent times, to bureaucratic sclerosis and corruption. After President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, he started clamping down on graft, absenteeism, and other abuses. He also began curbing dissent, as he moved to restore the Communist Party's control and stamp his own authority on all aspects of the nation's development")

Note:
(a)
(i) The online title is: Disillusioned Bureaucrats Are Fleeing China's Ministries
(ii) summary underneath the title in print: Six years after Xi Jinping took power, many civil servants are fed up with the increase inscrutiny
(iiu) Print and the online version are identical.
(b) There is no need to read the rest.

(5) Lucas Shaw, So You Want to Be a Pop Star in China. 我可以用中文唱 '我爱你.'* (* I can sing 'I love you' in Chinese.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/f ... a-pop-star-in-china
(online version: "Christopher Nissen [1992- ; in China since 2014], a handsome Dane who speaks very little Mandarin"

Note:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: How a Danish crooner hit it big in the world's hottest market
(ii) Print and the online version are identical.
(b) This is one of the three feature stories in the issue.