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...Art of the Export Re Justin Fox's "A Port That Exports": you don't wipe away an $800 billion annual trade deficit by further weakening the dollar, exporting raw materials and wishing for good luck [June 9]. It takes real change in trade policy - labor and environmental standards that will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAs and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade - but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, Avon...
...Dutch - began to encroach on Portugal's trading posts in the 17th century, and by the century's end, Portuguese traders were being eclipsed by the Dutch, English and Spanish. But in many ways, the Western world's awareness of, and infatuation with, all things Asian - from spices to art - can be traced to the early Portuguese merchants and explorers. Now a new museum in Lisbon attempts to reflect the cultural legacy of those pioneering days...
...planning for nearly two decades, the $46.6 million facility was set up by the Fundação Oriente (Orient Foundation) - a Portuguese cultural organization established in the former colony of Macau in 1988 - and showcases a vast array of Asian artifacts on five floors in a magnificent Art Deco building along the Lisbon waterfront at Alcãntara...
...been publicly exhibited, including rare crucifixes, snuff bottles, screens, ornaments, paintings and antiques from as far afield as East Timor, Japan, Goa, Korea and Macau (the latter meriting a section of its own). There is also a special exhibition devoted to Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto religious objects. But art experts and historians are most excited about the reappearance of a well-known collection that has not been shown publicly for many years...
...Art of the Export Re Justin Fox's "a port that exports": you don't wipe away an $800 billion annual trade deficit by further weakening the dollar, exporting raw materials and wishing for good luck [June 9]. It takes real change in trade policy - labor and environmental standards that will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAS and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade - but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, AVON...