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America's array of often contradictory trade restrictions are a major obstacle to raising its standard of living and strengthening its competitiveness, according to a study by economist James Bovard for the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis. Tariffs and quotas cost each U.S. family an average of about $800 a year. Low-income households suffer more because they spend a greater share of their earnings on food and clothing, two of the most rigidly controlled imports. Despite efforts to eliminate quotas, more than 3,000 of them restrict foreign apparel and textiles, adding $40 billion to U.S. clothing...
...Elvis. But these days such attractions are being upstaged by a succession of museum-quality jewels, porcelains, gilded carriages and statuary. Yes, in Memphis. The city has managed to put itself on the international circuit of blockbuster art shows. Its current offering: Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, an opulent array of 274 possessions of the militarily ruthless yet artistically keen Turks who ruled a wedge of Europe and Asia for nearly six centuries. Gathered from the legendary Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul and other Ottoman collections, it is the largest show of Ottoman art ever to travel beyond Turkey...
...past two decades, has penned an exciting and timely civic history. In one sumptuous two thousand year sweep, Hughes jettisons the deadness of prose that most readers associate with History and instead writes with the same electric, cobaltblue style that colors his art writing. While presenting an astonishing array of historical bric-a -brac, Hughes also welds together history and culture, politics and architecture, into an incisive textual amalgam...
...that spews out bursts of high-energy gamma rays. A popular theory held that the Great Annihilator was actually a gigantic black hole, a million stars collapsed into a single object so dense that its gravity wouldn't let even light escape. New information gathered by the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico and published in Nature has found that this theory is slightly off the mark. The Great Annihilator does indeed seem to be a black hole, but it's only as massive as a single star, and it's merely close to, but not right...
...little farther down the street, at 1105 Mass. Ave., Second Coming Records is an earthly paradise of new and used music. Second Coming is particularly strong on alternative rock. You can also browse through music videos and a dizzying array of limited edition collections' singles, posters, stickers and T-shirts...