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...standards of most Chinese. While the Chinese government is probably tempted to tax American goods, it seems to understand that high tariffs will hurt the relatively impoverished Chinese people more than it will help them. As so many developing nations have found, it is better to allow trade to flourish than to try to milk trade for all of the tax revenue it is worth. As a result, the Chinese people will be more likely to see their living standards rise to the levels of Hong Kong or Singapore...
Clairvoyants who claim to communicate with the dead--and warnings not to listen to them--go back at least as far as the Old Testament, yet psychics continue to flourish in back parlors and storefronts across America. None today is better known or more listened to than John Edward, a fast-talking former ballroom-dancing instructor who is cleaning up on his proclaimed ability "to connect with energies of people who have crossed over." Died, that...
...that the community is acknowledging the practice at all is a start, and a sign that Haitian Americans, like Cuban Americans before them, are beginning the passage from huddled refugees to more confident immigrants and players in the U.S. "We are not going to let Haitian traditions like restavek flourish here because we know now that America is the great equalizer among us," says attorney Phillip Brutus, who in November was elected Florida's first Haitian-American state legislator. "We're making giant leaps from where we were 10 years ago in that sense...
...test's prominence ensures that shouting matches will erupt over it regularly. Usually one side says the SAT should die because it's racist; the other says it should flourish because it maintains standards. Their arguments are important but had started to seem pointless, since the number of SAT takers has increased virtually every year since Pearl Harbor...
...refugee crisis, traffickers combed the camps for "recruits"), have now become transit and destination countries as well. The influx of international peacekeepers, U.N. administrators and development officials in Bosnia and Kosovo has created a burgeoning market for sex workers, while an infrastructure battered by war has allowed traffickers to flourish. Investigators say the Balkans have become a kind of training ground for women and girls brought in against their will from Eastern Europe and bound for Albania, southern Italy and points west...