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...sees it, Movie88.com is doing Hollywood a favor. "These Internet movies do not compare with the quality you see in the cinema," he says. "You watch it online, and if the movie is good, you go to the theater or go buy the DVD. We are promoting these Hollywood movies and not getting a single cent from the companies. They are just yelling at us." The ingrates...
...indulgences are University of Kentucky basketball and dirty jokes. But for Nunn, hemp is about economics, not the drug war. He wants locally grown hemp to be used for parts in the 1.2 million cars built in Kentucky every year. Like his allies in other farm-state legislatures who favor hemp, Nunn opposes marijuana legalization...
...barter. Residents belong to a club with more than 100 members. Each offers a service provided in exchange for yufu. One woman teaches people how to wear kimonos. An unemployed man gives haircuts. Several townsfolk sell rides in their cars. "In Japan, if you do this kind of favor for someone, people won't accept money," says Urata. "But they'll accept yufu...
...saber rattling, the mainland is recognizing that mean doesn't work in Taiwan, while strong economic ties can keep the island hooked to China like a Club Kid on ketamine. Taiwanese businesses have invested more than $40 billion in the mainland, and China may be ready to return the favor. One of the tourists talked of importing Taiwanese fish, while another said he wouldn't mind marrying a comely Taiwanese woman?for the good of cross-strait relations, of course...
...stability and growth pact was Germany's price for giving up the sacred deutsche mark in favor of the euro. No way would the country allow those profligate Italians and other high rollers to debase the new common currency by spending more than they could afford and running high deficits that would ignite inflation. So every member of the monetary union had to don a whalebone corset "Made in Germany." Above all, nobody could generate a deficit higher than 3% of GDP. Or else...