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...away? Check out American Airlines' big fare sale. Round-trip domestic fares start at $49 one-way from Dallas to St. Louis and $129 one-way from New York to San Diego. Internationally, you can go from Boston to London for $213 one-way or Los Angeles to Japan for $513 one-way. But decide quickly, tickets must be purchased...
...bluefin tuna to collapse." Not so, say European officials, who contend that their quota plan was the best deal possible, in part because it won the backing of Arab countries on the Mediterranean, who perceive ICCAT as controlled by the world's major fishing powers - the U.S., Canada, Japan and Europe. "You need to have all of those involved to feel ownership over this," says Pierre Amilhat, head of the European Commission's Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, who led Europe's negotiators in Marrakech. "The situation is serious. No one denies that," Amilhat says. "But we think...
...year worth about $1.6 billion. Today tuna fleets use high-tech spotter planes buzzing over the Med during the summertime tuna-spawning season in search of shoals that have escaped the trappers. The industry's major players are massive multinational corporations like Mitsubishi, the world's biggest tuna trader - Japan imports the bulk of bluefin tuna caught in the Med. Some of the larger companies have created state-of-the-art tuna ranches in the Med's deep waters, where bluefin tuna swim into giant nets and are fattened over a period of months before being hauled out, processed...
With a demure smile and a garland of jasmine, Thailand has always welcomed the world. China and Japan may have screened themselves off for centuries, but the ancient kingdom of Siam, as Thailand was once known, thrived on trade and tourism. Even today, the country depends on visitors lured by golden spires and white-sand beaches...
...Then in the 1980s, as corporate America struggled to compete with a rising Japan, a chorus arose from some economists and business leaders that the U.S. had to ditch its free-market ways for Asia's "state-led" capitalist system. What America needed was to copy aspects of the bureaucracy-managed economy - like its policy of providing state support to favored industries - that seemed such a stunning success in Japan. The American government "can no longer afford not to give more positive guidance" to the economy, wrote Asia expert Ezra Vogel in his 1979 book Japan as Number...