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...five guards, three of them veiled women, drove in a Nissan van through the strolling crowds. A woman was stopped and told to roll down her three-quarter-length sleeves. Another was admonished for allowing a lock of hair to escape from under her scarf. Sometimes female guards carry cotton and cleansing cream and insist on helping transgressors remove their makeup...
...going to take more than just debt forgiveness. A boost in aid will help. African leaders can also do more, including dropping their destructive and misguided loyalty to rogue regimes like Zimbabwe's. Perhaps most crucially, though, Africa needs a chance to sell its grain and cotton and fruit and vegetables to the rest of the world. Unless Europe, the U.S. and Japan make a serious attempt to cut their distorting and self-indulgent agricultural subsidies at the World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong later this year, Africa will always struggle to break out of its poverty trap. Forgiving...
...Republic and Liz Claiborne offer stylish versions at affordable prices. But nothing beats the real thing. At Gatsby's, Fink stocks up on Indian kurtas from labels like Royal Sari and Lotta ($39 to $169). She even travels annually to Bali to select her own line of beachwear--printed cotton pants and tunics. "The Balinese have an amazing sense of color and pattern," says Fink. "So when it's too hot to wear jeans but you still want to look sexy, these lightweight cotton pants are a great find"--on or off the beach. --With reporting by Betsy Kroll
...labor costs hit employment elsewhere. Politicians in the U.S. and Europe are threatening to limit Chinese imports if Beijing doesn't increase the value of the yuan and hence the price of its exports. The U.S. last week restricted annual growth of certain Chinese imports, such as cotton trousers, to as little...
Johnson’s story is sobering as well. His once-rich father lost everything to the heat and floods that destroyed his cotton crop. As a result, LBJ vowed to amass a fortune big enough to withstand any disaster. This pursuit of money would lead to allegations that Johnson improperly used his congressional position for his personal gain—for instance, he tended to help companies that ran ads on his wife Lady Bird’s radio station. And finally, there is Nixon, who as a child was devastated by his younger brother’s death...