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...over not only due to their low cost and high quantity production rates, but also because “they enable the free flow of images and ideas to a wide-ranging public,” according to the show’s text. Or, in the slightly more crude language of the 1960s underground student newspaper the Old Mole—several issues of which are included in the show—because you can print protest on media including a “t-shirt, jacket, poster, your ass.” For the record, of the four...
...international trading community? By joining the WTO, Vietnam hopes to become free from trade restrictions such as garment quotas that in the past have constrained its exports to the U.S. and Europe. Textile manufacturing employs 2 million Vietnamese and is the country's largest export earner after crude oil. But Vietnam's trade relations with the West have sometimes been prickly. The U.S. in recent years has imposed antidumping tariffs on Vietnamese shrimp and catfish; the E.U. recently placed similar restrictions on Vietnamese-made shoes. While WTO membership gives Vietnam the ability to challenge such barriers, the country may still...
...Jong Il's nuclear blast in North Korea signaled an unsettling new era in the nuclear-arms race. The rules of the cold war have been replaced with a crude survival-of-the-fittest code. Many readers blamed the U.S. for misplaced attention on Iraq, allowing the North Korean threat to increase...
...continent. Nor is the relationship simply one of political solidarity among developing nations: China's trade with Africa has quintupled since 2000 and its annual total is expected to hit $50 billion in 2006, and then to double again by 2010. China now imports about a quarter of its crude oil from Africa...
While hardcore Borat fans will inevitably be disappointed by the recycling job, the greatest surprise in “Borat” comes from Cohen’s new emphasis on crude slapstick humor. That’s not to say that the “Jackass”-style antics in the film (nude male wrestling, a live bear in an ice cream truck, the attempted abduction of Pamela Anderson) aren’t funny, just that it doesn’t take a comedic mind of Cohen’s caliber to decide that a fat naked...