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...Even Japanese and Korean steel, basic-materials and capital-equipment manufacturers-the companies you'd expect to be most despondent about reduced demand from the mainland-are philosophical. China's big appetite resulted in supply shortages and inventory disruptions. A respite from the insatiable dragon will give them an opportunity to reload. Says a spokeswoman for POSCO, Korea's largest steel company, "These constraints will have a short-term negative influence, but long-term, this is actually progress." Likewise, Japan's and Korea's giant electronics conglomerates are sanguine. Toshiba, for example, sold $1.3 billion worth of goods in China...
Bloom alleged that the set of post-Sept. 11 restrictions undermines the basic pedagogical goals of a research university...
...Whenever possible, we should draw distinct boundaries,” he said. “Basic research should be open, and [applied] research should be either classified or unclassified...
...Their censorship orders are totally groundless, absolutely arbitrary, at odds with the basic standards of civilization, and as counter to scientific common sense as witches and wizardry." JIAO GUOBIAO, a journalism professor at Peking University in Beijing, criticizing the Chinese Communist Party's censorship policies in a banned essay that has been circulated widely on the Internet...
Laurence Steinberg's most recent book is The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting (Simon & Schuster...