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...YEARS, SEARS ROEBUCK & CO. HAS BILLED ITSELF THE place "where America shops." Last week the giant retailer's $3 billion automobile-repair division was branded a place where Americans are being systematically robbed. After an 18-month investigation, the California department of consumer affairs charged that nearly half of Sears' 72 auto-service centers in the state routinely overcharge customers an average $223 for repairs, and that Sears mechanics also billed undercover agents for work that was never done. Spurred by a 50% increase in consumer complaints against Sears auto shops over the past three years, say California officials, they...
...rapacious industrialist, has a Stokowskian white mane that helps Gothamites think of him as Santa Claus, though Selina derisively calls him "Anti Claus." The Penguin's sewer-level lair, Arctic World, is a garishly colorful place; it has ice-white walls, chartreuse toxic bile and a giant yellow ducky that serves as the Penguin's Stygian barge...
...midpoint a week ago, the giant Earth Summit in Rio seemed to be on the verge of completely disintegrating. Angered by Washington's refusal to sign the "biodiversity" treaty to protect the world's plants and animals, several poorer nations considered withdrawing their support for the pact and even spoke of reviewing their position on the agreement to combat global warming. At summit headquarters trivialities and private agendas derailed serious debate over the plan of action called Agenda 21. Arab delegates pushed for oblique references to emotional and irrelevant issues like the plight of Israel's occupied territories, while...
...most important questions for the coming decade is whether this new trend of regionalization ends up being compatible with globalization. The answer will depend largely on whether GATT continues to nudge the world toward one giant free-trade zone. If GATT survives, the odds are better that regionalism will give way to transregionalism, just as nationalism has already given way to transnationalism in Western Europe. If, however, GATT dies, the opposite could happen: the temptation to form regional clubs could, over time, supplant and undermine global cohesion. Europe, North America and East Asia may evolve into three internally open...
Many Russians in the Crimea fear that a Ukrainian currency would cut them off completely from the Russian state and relegate them to second-class status in Ukraine. Many Ukrainians, meanwhile, guard their newly won sovereignty jealously and harbor deep suspicions about the giant neighbor to the east that ruled their nation for three centuries and now professes democratic principles. "Imperial tendencies are prevailing again in Russia," warns - Ukraine's Kryzhanovsky, "tendencies based on the law of might, not the law of reason...