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Faced with rising health-care costs and a global glut of their product, America's steelmakers are demanding more protection from imports. A bill before Congress would impose import quotas that might save 3,700 steelmaking jobs in the U.S. But higher costs for U.S. industries that use steel, such as autos and construction, would result in the loss of 19,000 to 32,000 jobs, according to a new study sponsored by the Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition. Andrew Sharkey, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, calls the study "flawed" and "based on a political agenda that...
Last year South Korea exported 1.5 million passenger vehicles, but the country's drivers bought a mere 4,414 imports. Why? Although high import duties and tax audits of Koreans who bought imports were abolished years ago, attitudes have yet to change. A survey found that 58% of car owners thought it was "unpatriotic" to own an import, and 64% thought it would still attract a tax audit...
Many chronic problems are shared by the twin cities. They slurp from a common, underground desert aquifer, but Juarez's exploding population may run out of fresh water in as little as five years because it sits on a smaller portion of the aquifer. El Paso is looking to import water from 150 miles away. Druglords have killed so many people here that victims' families--on both sides of the Rio Grande--have their own support groups. Tuberculosis and hepatitis flow freely back and forth--and beyond. "The truck driver with TB who sits in our restaurants today will...
...lost more men in our victories--more than 6,000 at Iwo Jima, for example, 12,000 at Okinawa--than we did in that defeat. This is one of the many things you won't learn from the blockbuster movie on the subject that opened last week. Perhaps more important, of the 408,439 service members who gave their lives in the war, only a few died heroically. Most died the way soldiers usually die--because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was, as we understand it, a good war. We have known that ever...
...collapse. Rather than a new U.N. resolution on Iraq - which would be impossible to pass given the level of division in the Security Council over Iraq - the proposals are designed to streamline and alter the requirements of the existing sanctions package to ease the way for Baghdad to import a wider range of civilian goods - the details have not yet been made available, and much will depend on how far a concept called "dual use" is applied on the list of prohibited items. Iraq has previously been blocked, for example, from importing simple painkillers and pencils on the grounds that...