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...able to push China only so hard. America is becoming more and more dependent on Asia for its own growth. U.S. companies, from General Motors to Motorola to McDonald's, are banking on China as a substantial source of future profits. Cheap imports of toys and electronics from China fill stores in the U.S. and help keep American consumers spending and supporting their own economy. And the Chinese government is the world's second largest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury bills, in effect funding Washington's ballooning budget deficit...
...Brogdale's fruits have different characteristics of shape, color, flavor, sweetness, fragrance and size. The apple collection, for example, ranges from the tiny Decio, brought to England by the Romans, to the very ugly Knobby Russet and the huge Howgate Wonder, just one of which could fill three apple pies. The plant center sells around 75 different apple trees, but if you can't find your favorite, Brogdale's experts will grow one especially for you. They can also recommend trees that will happily thrive in a pot on a balcony, provide an orchard design service tailored to soil...
...role in the upcoming film Deadly, opposite Laura Prepon. In an age of flawed superheroes, Routh and his director Bryan Singer face the tough task of updating the straitlaced all-American icon. Singer, himself at least the fourth director associated with the project, says he always intended to fill the part with a fresh face. Routh "is an extremely fine actor," says the X-Men helmer, and as a small-town Midwesterner, "he also embodies the legacy and history of this character." Plus, we're pretty sure he'll look good in tights...
Democrats cried foul in Nevada when a former employee of Sproul & Associates, hired by the Republican Party to gather voter-registration forms, claimed that those filled out by Democrats were being torn up. In Pennsylvania Democrats are so deeply suspicious of Republican tactics that they have kept secret the location of the Election Day staging grounds for a 527 organization called America Coming Together, supposedly because they fear that Republicans would slash their tires if they knew where it was. In Jefferson County, Colo., someone has been calling voters and warning them that it's too late to fill...
...thing that we see that really tells us the most about the consumer's financial situation is displaced merchandise. [Customers] fill their baskets; then what they do is take that merchandise out as they pick other things up. When the economy gets tougher, we have to go through that store more frequently. We saw that this year particularly as we got later in the summer...