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...disease prevention. The large supermarket chains that now control much of retail food distribution have driven down consumer prices partly by centralizing production, cramming livestock into large holding markets and slaughterhouses that are virtual hothouses for disease. "Supermarkets have a big role to play for that because they insist on having all their meat taken to one abattoir to be slaughtered," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said. Add to that the expansion of global trade in livestock and meat products-the market has grown by an average of 9% a year for the last decade...
...years Beijing has insisted that "Taiwan is a part of 'one China.'" But, says Zhou, from now on the Chinese government will insist that "the mainland and Taiwan both belong to 'one China.'" Catch the difference? In the old version of the sentence, Taiwan is presented as a part of China. In the new sentence, Taiwan and the mainland are positioned as parts of the same entity. That means the two sides can talk as equals. Except for one thing: the alternative to reunification, Zhou made clear, is war. Beijing is asking Taiwan, again, to negotiate with...
...cold.) Like Welles' cut of "Ambersons" or the original release print of Cukor's "A Star Is Born," the spider sequence has passed into the Missing Cinema Hall of Fame. It is still the subject of Internet rumours 78 years after it was first reported missing; the web fanatics insist it will appear on the long-delayed American...
...Council is by no means a perfect institution; it is a work in progress. One must realize that institutions in their formative years must find their place and implement their proposals with thoughtfulness. To insist hastily upon tangible results from the Ivy Council would be unwise. The people behind the Ivy Council (the Board of Governors, the Executive Board and the delegates) work assiduously to advance our shared interests. One should not treat their diligence with derision and disdain...
...despite these obstacles, deans insist that Knowles' efforts are starting...