Too similar in packaging and taste to other Aussie wines in the crowded price range, Carramar was abandoned by retailers.

FORBES: High-tailing it

Despite an initial big fall in its currency, the real, after Brazil abandoned its exchange-rate peg, inflation in 1999 was within its target range at just under 9%.

ECONOMIST: Floating with an anchor

The U.S. and other countries, most notably Korea's close neighbor Japan, are deeply worried by the North's long-range ballistic-missile program, which Pyongyang has put on hold but not abandoned.

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