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Legislators have often gone overboard in trying to curb citizens' behavior, but reality eventually sets in. Now, even as some state legislatures repeal their centuries-old bans on Sunday liquor sales, other lawmakers are trying novel ways of cracking down on leisurely lewdness and lollygagging. Here are some of the latest no-nos legislators have been drafting. --By Jeremy Caplan...
Thus far, fears of a "hard landing" for China's economy appear to have been overblown. The Chinese government has taken measures to curb some of the wilder excesses, tightening conditions on some bank loans and raising interest rates to stave off inflation. But the government clearly has its limits. There was broad agreement among the panelists that Chinese authorities have little interest in unlinking their currency from the dollar, despite consistent pressure to do so from the U.S. "The sanguine view is that it is not in the interest of the Asians to break the dollar link," said Tyson...
...Lebanon to the Lebanese. If anything, now, that pressure is likely to grow. But the government in Damascus, or some elements of it, may well be feeling cause for panic. Syria is isolated diplomatically and under fire from the Bush administration, which accuses Damascus of doing too little to curb the flow of men and money to insurgents in Iraq, and demands an end to Syria's backing for Hezbollah and the Palestinian militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Domestically, its stagnant economy raises the pressure on a regime dominated by a small ethnic minority (the Allawites) trading...
...swiveling impact unique in movie martial arts. He also knows how to take a fall. In one match, he gets on the wrong end of a killer kick and executes a triple twist before hitting the canvas, as if Greg Louganis were doing a gold-medal dive from a curb into a puddle. And stick around for Jaa's higher, higher, pants-on-fire stunt, in which he twirls and kicks while swathed in flames...
...doesn't work, but because it tells the world that Filipinos are morons." CHRYSTALYNE GALAPON, Filipino store clerk, on Manila's plan to stop jaywalking by having a truck-mounted 2-m-by-3-m "wet flag" driven along the city's streets, soaking pedestrians who stray off the curb...