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...decades - should provide 20 more years of growth for an economy that already produces a quarter of the world's television sets and washing machines and half of its cameras and photocopiers. U.S. towns identified with products that seem uniquely American - think A.T. Cross Pen of Lincoln, Rhode Island - have been hurt as employers shift at least some production to China. Companies in Europe are also feeling the pain. Competition from Chinese manufacturers helped push exports of Italian textiles down by around 6% in 2002. And over the past year, cheap Chinese imports of everything from footwear to TV parts...
...night to a turtle project) to rural Ireland (spending your spare time working on river restoration). If you want a holiday that helps the local community and you want to spend it in relative ease, check out these places that let you feel good while doing some good. SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND (escapeadv.com) Proof that the best (indigenous) insights come in small packages, this mountain-biking operator takes select off-road groups through eye-popping Tolkien terrain, using local Kiwi resources as much as possible. CORDILLERA BLANCA, PERU (footlooseadventure.co.uk) Action-weary tourists can let their llamas do the walking...
...north, Karzai is pleading for $300 million in international aid to slash cultivation by 70% before 2008. One Step Closer CYPRUS Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders meeting at U.N. headquarters agreed to begin formal talks in Nicosia this week to resolve the 30-year dispute that has divided the island. They hope to complete the talks by the end of March. Referenda will then be held based on the deal that emerges. If the outcomes are successful, Cyprus could be united when it enters the E.U. in May. Power Struggle IRAN Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency uncovered blueprints...
...been ?on the road? for a dozen years, filing stories on ?those gentler subjects? (rural eccentrics, unicyclists, small-town sages, long-time friends, a high-school team with a record number of consecutive losses). What Joseph Mitchell achieved in his New Yorker profiles of Bowery ticket-takers, Staten Island oystermen and Mohawk skyscraper steelworkers, Kuralt approached, more fondly, in his reportorial visits...
...Bears present some potentially difficult matchup problems for Harvard. The Rhode Island team distributes the ball extremely well—a fact underscored by the fact that five different players have led the team in scoring this season...