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Trade always matters. But it matters now more than ever, with the global economy slumping and the U.S. in need of poorer countries as partners in the war against terrorism. Right now there is nothing more important on the economic agenda than securing a new round of measures to reduce trade barriers. Trade ministers have just met in the Persian Gulf city of Doha, Qatar, to work out the outlines of such a round. They need to move fast: the World Trade Organization estimates that in 2001 the growth in the volume of world trade in goods will be just...
...slow idea was what grabbed the headlines out of a sweeping new agenda set out by the SPD at a convention this weekend. Since Merkel edged into a power at the head of a "grand coalition" of the CDU and the SPD two years ago, the Social Democrats have been divided between centrist and left-leaning factions. The party has also been forced to watch as Merkel and the CDU co-opted some of the party's traditional turf on questions ranging from human rights to family benefits. The new platform demonstrably shifts the party to the left, a move...
...next year in a policy that has thrown the multibillion-euro deal into question. Merkel even came in for criticism from her own foreign minister, Frank Walter Steinmeier, a senior SPD leader, who took her to task for failing to use back channels effectively to promote her human rights agenda in China and Russia...
...think people know what her agenda exactly is," Obama told the New York Times in a story posted Saturday on the paper's website. "It is absolutely true that we have to make these distinctions clearer. And I will not shy away from doing that." Obama added that his plan had always been to go on the offensive in the fall, and that he would be targeting Clinton specifically on Social Security, Iran and Iraq in the days and weeks to come...
...researchers and students to understand the importance of visually experiencing science and engineering. This might seem obvious, but for some reason there is not enough of it on campus. I feel deeply that the world has to start engaging the public in research—my own agenda is to bring in the visual, which is a common language that goes beyond background and education. Frankel sports a long list of grants and fellowships from groups such as the National Science Foundation and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Upon seeing her work, this variety is understandable: She captures science in such...