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...Orthodox Church that was the driving force behind the move. The church has increasingly seen its hold over Russian souls wrested away by foreign upstarts from Hare Krishnas to Mormons to Aum Shinri Kyo wannabe-cults. Calling on a war chest (supplied by its duty-free, multimillion dollar oil export and cigarette import deals, according to the Russian-language weekly Kapital), the Church wields enough political clout to squelch the competition -- and keep Russian souls at home...
That value is purely theoretical, however. Both the export and import of ivory are illegal because of a 1989 international agreement that declares elephants a "most endangered" species. Namibia's treasure is, practically speaking, worthless, as are the hoards sitting in neighboring Zimbabwe and Botswana--an estimated $8 billion worth at last count. All three nations are, frankly, fed up with having to sit on all that wealth. So when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) assembles for its biennial meeting this week in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, delegates from around the world will be asked...
...York City policy analyst whose group meets once a month. "I love it," she says. "I believe you have to set up situations where you can think about larger principles." A high-powered book club in Washington, started by Kenneth Brody, the former president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and made up of lawyers, journalists and government officials, hired a university professor to guide it through classics like The Iliad that members may have, well, skimmed as undergraduates. Virginia Valentine, a liaison for Denver's Tattered Cover stores, finds that the book clubs' mainstays are women and that they...
...designed not only to wipe out existing chemical weapons stockpiles, but also to provide a defense scheme for nations that come under chemical attack. The CWC provides carrots for its member nations including "arrangements for speedy assistance in the event of chemical weapons attack and the loosening up of export controls" according to Stephen J. Ledogar, the chief American delegate to the treaty's 1992 drafting. The CWC constitutes a positive effort to unite countries against chemical weapons, not merely a set of negative prohibitions against the possession of chemical weapons...
Despite China's decade-plus economic liberalization, its critics in the U.S. still see the country as a monolith obsessed with growing ever stronger through unfair trade practices. The view goes something like this: Beijing believes it can export whatever it wants while barring imports on any pretext it chooses. It can undercut other manufacturing nations by the use of cheap labor. It can steal ideas and ignore copyrights without much risk of retaliation. And it can essentially blackmail multinational companies into transferring jobs and technology as the price of cracking open a market of 1.2 billion people. Taken together...