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...another 10% drop this year. "If we don't find a solution soon, the textile manufacturing sector could be dead by 2005," he warns, adding that 1.3 million jobs would be lost with it. "At this point, we're not growing at all. We are only trying to survive." Anton Supit, chairman of the Indonesian Footwear Association, tells a similar story. He expects exports of footwear to reach only $1.5 billion this year, down from $2.2 billion in 1996. The number of members in his association has dropped by more than half over the last 10 years; over the last...
...Anton Von Leeuwenhoek is famous for scraping the plaque off the exceedingly dirty teeth of the elderly men of Delft. He is still remembered today for his crude attempt at oral hygiene because he was the first person to describe bacteria and a host of other “cavorting beasties” that were visible in the plaque under his crude microscopes. (Leeuwenhoek originally called them “wretched beasties,” but time has been kind to the bacteria.) He described them jumping about with their grotesque appendages and strange methods of locomotion. He collected...
...Roaring After three days of talks with the Sri Lankan government in Thailand, the Tamil Tigers guerrilla group announced that it will seek a separate state in northeast Sri Lanka only as a "last resort." "Our demand for a homeland is not a demand for a separate state," said Anton Balasingham, the Tigers' chief negotiator. The talks, the first direct negotiations in seven years, were aimed at ending a 19-year civil war between the minority Tamils and the Sinhalese majority in which around 65,000 people have been killed. SOUTHEAST ASIA Conspiracy Theory Two governments announced details...
Italian and U.S. officials last week fingered Tokhtakhounov, 53, a bull-headed Uzbek long linked with the Russian Mafia, as the mind behind the skating scandal at last winter's Salt Lake City Olympics, when tumble-down Russian pairs skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won gold over Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, the Canadian duo who gave a demonstrably superior performance. Now implicated in the mess are the gold-winning French ice-dance team of Russian-born Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat. Anissina and her mother are the two women believed to be caught on tape talking with Tokhtakhounov...
...Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim, by Anton Gill Insider art-collection tips...