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...type of pot comes from a certain tradition. Using certain materials and symbols, you can instantly conjure up a particular culture. There’s turquoise for the Middle East, blue and white for Delft [from the Netherlands], the bottle green ware of France, the ironware of Japan and Korea. If you use those techniques they immediately evoke a culture, and if you mix them you create hybrids. You hope that people can pick up on it—that’s where an increase in visual literacy comes into play...
Clinton said foreign investors, specifically from South Korea and Brazil, have already shown interest in establishing garment factories in Haiti if there are changes made to the HOPE (Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement) Act, which allows Haiti to export textiles tariff-free to the U.S. "I think it will create more than 100,000 jobs in Haiti in short order," said Clinton...
...industry. Even though the U.S. hasn't seen a new nuclear power plant since 1996, there are now dozens on the drawing board, and the Obama Administration has announced loan guarantees to build new plants. United Controls is also seeing a spike in business from overseas countries such as Korea, Taiwan, Spain and Brazil. In other words, coming out of the recession, Hale's firm is a commodity in short supply: a top-notch credit risk...
...thrift. The explosion in credit-card and home-mortgage debt before the recession tells us the demand that was there was never sustainable. This is why the President now talks about doubling exports over the next five years and the importance of passing trade agreements with countries like South Korea, Panama and Colombia. If we can't sell to ourselves, there is at least partial salvation in selling to others...
...Even so, there is a clear trend emerging: tomorrow's jobs will require people to add more value than ever before. Consider Samsung's only semiconductor-fabrication plant outside South Korea, which sits in northeast Austin. Since the fall, the factory, which makes flash memory for devices like smart phones and iPods, has been undergoing a $500 million upgrade. In advance of the plant's early-summer reopening, Samsung will hire about 200 engineers and technicians to run and service the new, more sophisticated equipment inside. But with the new factory and those new jobs, 500 other positions have been...