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...much export sales of kava have dropped for South Pacific islands ever since the release of a German report last year that claimed the popular medicinal root could cause liver damage...
...Although the country's showcase export industries such as automobiles and electronics have redefined competitiveness and economic advantage worldwide, the country's far-larger domestic sectors?construction, retailing, agriculture, health care and financial services, among others?have languished. Shielded from competition by a tangle of government subsidies, tariffs and protectionist policies, the nation's domestic manufacturers and services have hardly changed?let alone improved?for decades. What may have once been an enlightened government plank to promote universal employment back when Japan really was a developing country is now backfiring massively. The high prices and poor consumer satisfaction that Japanese...
...inefficient? Companies like Sony, Toshiba and Toyota have made the country famous as the place where they always make things better, cheaper, smarter. Production techniques invented here?Just In Time Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, Continuous Improvement?have been imitated from Seoul to S?o Paulo. Certainly, Japan's leading export manufacturers deserve this reputation. According to that report by McKinsey, Japanese export industries like automobiles, electronics and computer hardware are, indeed, 20% more productive than the worldwide benchmark. But here's the problem: these industries, once you stop to count them, are quite few in number. Together, they make up only...
...fish farming at its worst, travel to Chile, where salmon farming has boomed in the past decade and generates $1 billion a year in export revenue. "A film of feed leftover made of fish oil, animal fat and transgenic soybean oil floats on the water around the salmon farms," says Ronald Pfeil, 67, a cattle farmer in Chile's remote Aysen region. "When the tide is low, the beaches stink...
...leopards found dead around Bori Budruk since January 2000, postmortems showed all died of starvation. But this summer things took a savage and unforeseen turn. The animals adapted. In the tamed landscape in which they found themselves?neat rows of tomatoes and cornflowers and chrysanthemums for export to Europe?leopards came across man-made forests of towering sugarcane. Far from being just a make-do home, says forestry chief Ashokkumar N. Khadse, the cane fields proved to be an ideal leopard habitat. The animals flourished in the impenetrable thickets, producing two litters a year of which all six cubs would...