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...SPREADING LABOR UNREST IS also testimony to the difficulty of converting a welfare state, with cradle-to-grave protections for workers, to what Beijing's leaders call a "socialist market economy." China may boast one of the world's fastest-growing gross domestic products -- GDP shot up 13.4% in 1993 and at nearly a 13% annual rate in the first quarter of 1994 -- but at least for the short term, the process of converting to a market economy has cost China many more jobs than it has created. State-run factories, which still employ more than two-thirds of China...
Quickly rising temperatures in Antarctica back up the global-warming theory, prompting scientists to raise new concerns about the possibility of floods. British researchers who monitor conditions at the South Pole have tracked an increase of half a centigrade degree every decade. This marks the fastest mercury rise on record and a pattern that many view as a warning sign pointing to global warming. Some of the cities at risk of being deluged by melting polar ice: Sydney, Bangkok and the American ports of New Orleans and Miami...
...action are realistic and courageous. The question, as Clinton said last Thursday, is not whether the U.S. should pressure Beijing to improve its abysmal human-rights record. The question is how best to do it while ensuring that America gets a piece of the action in the world's fastest-growing economy. The two interests may appear antithetical, but they...
...week's end the President decided to resume high-level talks with North Korea, prompted by assurances from the IAEA that no fuel had yet been diverted for weapons production and by his own realization that a precipitate push for a trade embargo against North Korea is the fastest road to a dangerous confrontation. Even if sanctions could win approval in the U.N. Security Council -- where China has repeatedly stated its opposition -- Pyongyang has said it will regard the imposition of trade restrictions as an act of war, and could retaliate by invading South Korea...
...lined the streets of Sao Paulo. Outside the gates of the local legislature, a chant went up: "O-le, o-le, o-le, o-la! Sen-na, Sen-na!" It was a rhythmic requiem for the hero who lay within, one of Brazil's greatest heroes and among the fastest men on wheels on earth -- Ayrton Senna da Silva, dead at 34, killed in a Formula One crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. In his 10 years of Grand Prix competition, the Brazilian had won 41 races and three world championships. Senna would be mourned officially...