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...aren't always legit (example: U.S. steel tariffs, which were lifted in December after 20 months), China is not an egregious trade cheat. China imposed tariffs on some steel imports from five countries last month, but is more open to foreign investment and imports than Japan was during its boom years. Few countries have embraced globalization at greater risk. The shutdown of inefficient state-owned plants has cost China tens of millions of jobs, with more to go. On a more pragmatic level, the U.S. needs China's cooperation on everything from trying to halt North Korea's nuclear- weapons...
...gums, the geriatric envelope. Mike Wallace and Andy Rooney are both 85; Morley Safer is a grandpaternal 73; Don Hewitt, the show?s founding and continuing boss, is 81 and reluctant to quit. But ?60 Minutes? has a ticking urgency: it?s a time bomb ever threatening to go boom. The show has a need to hector, and a suspicion, in most of its stories, that powerful people often have something to hide, and that it is the mission of Hewitt and his honchos to expose greed, chicanery and general weaseliness. (Recall the superb ?Saturday Night Live? sketch, in November...
...Shojo manga are a big part of that boom. Mostly written and drawn by women, shojo usually put cute, strong-willed 13 to 16 year old girls at their center. The stories typically focus on relationships and romance, but often also include adventures in magical worlds outside the humdrum realities of school and home. Mecca Moore, 13, of Los Angeles, buys manga every week and claims to spend $1,000 a year on the stuff. She says she likes shojo because, "They tell a story in art that makes a person have a special connection. You can actually feel what...
Pope John Paul II doesn't get around much anymore, but sometimes the party comes to him. With boom box in tow, three BREAK DANCERS from a Polish cultural organization took turns spinning around on their heads for the Pontiff, and each one elicited a wave of approval. When the show was over, the Pope blessed them, saying, "Artistic talent is a gift from...
...boom. In the end, of course, bipolar disorder is no joke. Suzanne goes into reverse, into the lethal subtraction of depression--first happiness goes, then feeling of any kind. When a doctor treats her with an unsuitable new prescription, she ends up in a mental hospital, the usual cuckoo's nest of chain smokers and emotional skulduggery. There's some light at the end of the tunnel, but the point of this book is not the destination. It's the haywire road Suzanne takes as she drives herself crazy. Fisher can drive you crazy too. But when she pulls...