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...what price to the Chinese economy? China had resisted ending the peg partly out of fear that its factories would become less competitive, which would cost the country jobs and curtail growth in its export-fueled economy. Officials for Chinese companies that compete almost entirely on price, such as those in the toys and textiles industries, say even this 2.1% increase in the yuan's value will hurt sales to cost-conscious U.S. retailing giants such as Wal-Mart and Target. Yu Zhihua, export manager for the Hangzhou Silk and Garment Import Export Corp. in Hangzhou, says her profit margins...
...world has taken some steps to curtail the spread of nukes. Under a treaty signed three years ago, the U.S. and Russia agreed to shrink their stockpiles; for the U.S., that has meant trimming the number of deployed warheads from the current 5,000 to between 1,700 and 2,200 by 2012. At the same time, the Bush Administration has decided, unilaterally, to cut the total nuclear arsenal from about 10,000 warheads to 6,000 over the same period. In the armed forces, nuclear expertise is no longer a path to the top. "No one's promoting their...
...election. At the company's request, the North Carolina Republican inserted language in a spending bill calling for the National Academy of Sciences to study PCB-contaminated sites and produce a new cost-benefit analysis of dredging, which critics say GE could use to curtail the Hudson cleanup. GE has long insisted that the prudent course of action on the Hudson is to let sleeping PCBs lie. After complaints from environmentalists and New York politicians, including Senator Hillary Clinton (who has received $45,800 from GE since 1999), the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to call off the study. The issue...
...problem is that the instinct to curtail our freedoms remains, not least in Musharraf himself. Like rulers before him, he appears to have little regard for civil liberties when they conflict with his political objectives. Hence his willingness to act in what he calls the "national interest": initially denying a gang-rape victim the right to travel (she might reflect badly on Pakistan), or tolerating the roughing up of supporters of a mixed-gender race (presumably because he thinks Pakistan is not yet ready for such an event...
...image of professional athletes as complacent money grubbers has lately been suffering. Michael Jordan, pro basketball's most sublime subject, missed 64 games this year with a wounded foot but declined the Chicago Bulls' invitation to shirk the remainder of the season. Jordan would not even let the Bulls curtail his court time. "I am a basketball player," he declared, and rejoiced in scoring 49 and 63 points even while losing to the Boston Celtics...