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...growing demand for foreign cars, toys and games, creating the largest trade imbalance in eight years. TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports that the trend toward a vast trade disparity with China bodes poorly for the U.S. economy: "This shift from Japan to China is a warning, an alarm bell. The potential that China will be a source of cheap exports and lost American jobs far surpasses that potential from Japan." Japan's economy has increasingly matured, Simons says, and is not nearly the economic threat that China is becoming, given its large population of 1.2 billion people. "China...
...alarm is going off, or so it seems. Every few seconds a piercing honk pushes past the eardrums of those in attendance and enters their brain. This is done on purpose so that the men and women on the Baylor University track team have a better sense of their pacing...
...beeper goes off. Kedlaya squelches it and looks down at the digital display. "A fire in Quincy," he says. My eyes light up in alarm. "Quincy, Mass., not Quincy House," he reassures me. We continue...
Harvard then had four so-so non-league games, going 1-3 against varying competition to close out the 1995 half of the season at .500. Especially given Harvard's historically uncanny ability to falter at the end of the season, this record might cause alarm, but the Crimson wasn't playing all that terribly...
...alarm went out: the President was missing on the World Wide Web. Until about a month ago, the White House home page had a nifty feature allowing netizens to search an archive of the President's Saturday radio addresses. It was simple: type in a keyword--say "Medicare"--and the index would produce a list of all his speeches addressing that issue, even playing an audio segment of the speech cued to the subject. The easy-to-use index was a valuable resource. Maybe too valuable. Concerned that it might be used by political enemies for "opposition research," jittery Administration...