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...about. Countries can make their currencies go up and down by buying and selling in the world's foreign-exchange markets. The U.S. and its major trading partners were in the market last week for the third time this year, ! buying every dollar in sight in an effort to halt the latest slide. It didn't help much, and that could force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates some more and risk slowing the economic recovery. Yet for all anyone knows, the price of the dollar could rise in the next few months...
Vietnam and Laos have ample reason to protect the region, if only to preserve vital watersheds and forests and to help halt the desertification that is slowly drying out much of Asia. The area also has global importance. Taxonomists believe it might be one of the best places in the world for studying biodiversity and how it evolves. Scientists have not even begun to examine the biological riches contained in the rugged hills. Says Arctander: "If mankind wants to preserve biodiversity, it makes sense to start in places like Vu Quang, which have proved able to sustain biodiversity...
...Japanese publicly vowed to go along with any sanctions decided by the U.N. Privately, though, Tokyo is suggesting that the process be drawn out, ! beginning with another warning to Pyongyang, followed by minor sanctions. Only then would Japan move to a full embargo, including a halt to the hundreds of millions of dollars in remittances that North Koreans in Japan send home each year...
...fact, this effort is unlikely to be any more effective than the agenda that came out of Bucharest 20 years ago. Reason: the principal assumption underlying decades of efforts to halt the population explosion turns out to be questionable at best. This is the "demographic transition," the notion that people will have fewer children as their sense of well-being increases. It has been embraced by such strange bedfellows as the Reagan Administration and Vice President Al Gore because it offers the bland assurance that a nation can achieve the aims of family planning in the course of economic development...
...really believes his survival is at stake, what can the U.S. and the U.N. do to make him halt his nuclear program? Possibly nothing. Kim must be aware that the West's demands will not stop once he ends production. Seung Soo Han, South Korea's ambassador to the U.S., says that his government is as intent on learning whether the North already has the plutonium for a bomb as in stopping Pyongyang from making new weapons. "Our ultimate aim," he says, "is to make the Korean peninsula nuclear free...