Word: importers
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...niche fashion house called Hysteric Glamour, baggy pants, a chain of oversize dice hanging from his waist and silver rings on his fingers. Being a deejay would be kind of cool, he says, but he likes graphic design too. And then he met this salesman who tried to import beetles from Indonesia, and that sounded promising?except all the beetles died while waiting to clear customs. "Maybe I could do that," he says...
...Within the E.U. itself, barriers were rising. Germany imposed an import ban on livestock, fresh or frozen meat and on most dairy products, not only from Britain - which in any case had banned exports when the outbreak began - but from France as well. At least a half dozen other European countries imposed checks and restrictions on French exports because of confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth in the western region of Mayenne. The bans, said Marc-Henri Cassagne, head of the organization that monitors animal health in France, "are abusive in their application to areas of France that have shown...
...really picture it," Herbie Crichlow says, "I shouldn't be here." No kidding. A brash English import who says he's the "black sheep" of Sweden's low-key pop scene, Crichlow moved to Stockholm for one thing, or more accurately, one woman. The short story: boy meets girl on a Barbados beach, boy falls for girl, girl goes home, boy follows, freezes, acclimatizes, marries...
World poverty is another issue in which the Clinton administration made headway through globalization, by relieving the debts and lowering import barriers for developing nations, as well as making more abstract commitments towards universal education and removing the digital divide, he said...
...What can be done to prevent future outbreaks? Apart from banning the import of potentially contaminated animals or products, not much. E.U. legislation already requires member states to quarantine and destroy all infected animals and animal products once contamination is discovered. To stop the disease from spreading, E.U. law prohibits movement of all animals, meat, feed, utensils or other products such as wool or milk liable to transmit the disease...