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...personalities and second-tier celebrities, Beat Takeshi presides on TV Tackle as the highest of Japanese pop culture royalty, an imperious entertainer whose every twitch and tick and grunt and sniffle elicit commentary and kudos. The show is standard Japanese chat show fodder: ribald commentary on issues of societal import, with plenty of carousing and bit comedy thrown in. So typical is TV Tackle of what dominates Japan's airwaves?it's one of seven Beat vehicles on the air right now?that the host doesn't even bother to familiarize himself with globalization, today's subject, before he arrives...
Iraq is barred from importing even the most basic medicine and medical supplies. Antibiotics and infant vaccinations are denied because American and British officials worry that such drugs will be used to create chemical weapons. For many Iraqi doctors, the most effective weapon at their disposal for fighting life-threatening diseases is a bottle of aspirin. Iraq is not even allowed to import the parts necessary for repairing the water filtration plants that were damaged during the Gulf...
...Despite local community opposition, the New York power authority is racing to install 10 individual generators around the city, each capable of producing 44 megawatts. The system is tailor-made for New York, which is plagued by bottlenecks on its aging transmission lines that often make it hard to import power...
...imported fewer than 500 cows from the British Isles in the 1980s, of which just 32 entered the food chain. By the end of the decade, the U.S. had prohibited the import of live cows and sheep from Britain, along with many animal products and rendered animal proteins...
With the U.S. government's stringent import regulations, the BSE prion is unlikely to come from Europe, even without the new blood-donation rules (which, given supply shortages, many experts suspect will end up costing more lives than they could possibly save). Direct transmission from one person to another is considered highly unlikely...