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...five continues to improve. At 9.4 deaths per 1,000 infants last year, Cuba's rate is surpassed only by Canada's (7 per 1,000 in 1992) and the U.S.'s (9 per 1,000) in the western hemisphere, according to PAHO. Though hard-pressed for basic supplies, Cuban biotech labs still produce the world's only meningitis B vaccine, as well as 39 monoclonal antibodies for treating cancer. The Neurotransplant Center in Havana is rated the best in the world for fetal-tissue transplants to treat Parkinson's disease, a degenerative brain disorder that causes muscle tremors...
...political analogy that might cast doubt on the efficacy of trying, through economic coercion, to influence the internal affairs of a Communist regime, consider the case of Cuba. The united States has maintained a tight embargo on Cuba for over 30 years. The effects of this embargo on the Cuban economy are arguably much worse than the effects that the annulment of MFN would have on the Chinese economy. Yet Castro has maintained a firm clutch on the reigns of his Communist regime, while the citizens of his dictatorship have suffered the combined economic consequences of both his economic policies...
...moral of the Cuban example is a simple one: dictators can long endure hardships imposed from the outside by leeching off resources that should have been destined for their citizens. In the case of China, whose size, population, and regional influence, make it abundantly more independent than the comparatively tiny island of Cuba, there is all the more reason to believe that Deng Xiaoping's government will find ways to adapt to the loss of its MFN status without changing its policy on human rights...
...than in a neutral office, he asked leading questions that reflected his biases. "John made it obvious what he wanted to hear," says Bassett. "I provided the answers." Among other recollections, she told of an encounter with John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev on board a spaceship during the Cuban missile crisis. Bassett said Khrushchev was crying and that "I sat in his lap, and I put my arms around his neck, and I told him it would be O.K." Hearing her tale, Mack became so excited that he leaned on the bed too heavily, and it collapsed...
Hayek, who is personally worth more than $1 billion, is passionate about his playtime too. He is a fervent tennis player and skier, owns two vacation homes in southern France, collects art (a Dali melted-watch sculpture graces his office), adores classical music, Cuban cigars and good food. "I'm a sensual kind of guy. I drink life fully," he says...