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...With the Dow still dropping, traders will be watching the Export and Import Prices report tomorrow for confirmation of what we all suspect: that economic problems and weaker currencies in Asia are causing cheaper goods to flood into the U.S. while weakening the markets for domestic goods and services abroad...
...stocks of many retailers. That may have made sense in the case of luxury-goods exporters like Tiffany, which has a large Japanese exposure. But a strong dollar and falling prices in Asia are windfalls for K Mart (a stock that I own) and the Gap, both of which import products from that region...
...from the plane to the terminal, then going through the fiasco of smuggling my laptop through customs (only with the help of a friend of a friend of a friend who works for the Intelligence Service--otherwise I'd have had to pay 70% of the purchase price in import duties) and finally feeling the holes in the road through the shock system of my family's car. Unmistakably home, unmistakably Bulgaria...
...place. According to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 85 percent of the workers hired under the so-called H-1B visa program are not exceptionally skilled at all, and are instead low-level computer programmers making less than $75,000 a year. Are we really so lacking as to need to import 115,000 workers to do this kind of work...
American Tibetan-style Buddhists, however, will have to digest the occultism, interschool feuding and occasional violence that have long marked the culture they thought was their model. Donald S. Lopez Jr., a professor of Buddhist and Tibetan studies and author of an important new book, Prisoners of ShangriLa: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, says the fracas will help Americans realize they "have a bowdlerized version of Tibetan Buddhism." Editor Tworkov goes further. "This allows us as Westerners to ask, How do we bring this tradition into our society and our lives, and what is best left behind in Tibet...