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Washington announced punitive tariffs on $1 billion worth of Chinese products, ranging from plastics to cellular phones, in retaliation for Beijing's failure to resolve a dispute over the piracy of American patents and copyrights. China, which sells about 40% of its exports to the U.S., swiftly counterpunched, saying it would then impose retaliatory tariffs on American compact discs, cigarettes and other items...
...Clinton Administration regards as Beijing's inadequate efforts to curb widespread piracy of American computer software, music and films. The new tariffs are intended to equal the estimated revenue lost through theft of U.S. copyrights and patents in China. Among the hardest- hit Chinese exports are plastics, picture frames, cellular phones, answering machines, sporting goods and some bicycles. Beijing responded with 100% tariffs on compact discs, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and other products, threatening a trade war between two of the world's largest markets...
...Like many others, he understood the power of new molecular and cellular methods for dissecting viral functions," Varmus told the Harvard Gazette. "But unlike most others, he retained a deep appreciation for the fact that viruses infect whole organisms, not just cells in petri dishes, and that these infection cause human suffering and death...
American University political scientist James Thurber, author of the forthcoming book Remaking Congress, calls politics in the information age "hyperpluralism." He remembers sitting in congressional hearings for the 1986 tax-reform law as lobbyists watched the proceedings with cellular phones at the ready. "They started dialing the instant anyone in that room even thought about changing a tax break." Their calls alerted interested parties and brought a deluge of protest borne by phone, letter or fax. "There is no buffer allowing Representatives to think about what's going on," Thurber says. "In the old days you had a few months...
...early in the week, rose after the announcement. Still, Mexicans remained anxious about their country's fiscal health. Said a Mexico City electronics dealer: "This is a time bomb. People will take to the streets." Hundreds of upper-middle-class housewives did, marching on the presidential residence with their cellular phones in hand and their maids alongside waving banners demanding TRUTH AND DEMOCRACY...