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...asks. "For things like bras, nobody can compete with China." Right you are, Mr. Yang, which is why the U.S.'s uneasy embrace of globalization is chafing against China's emergence as the world's workshop. China rules in stocking stuffers, but it's climbing the technology ladder too. Its huge pool of cheap labor - up to 500 million peasants are expected to migrate to cities in search of factory work over the next two 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...
...Crimson’s wins all came in the top four slots on the ladder. Co-captain Louisa Hall, the intercollegiate No. 4—who as the team’s lone senior was playing in her final match on Harvard courts—was her usual dominating self in the No. 1 slot. Hall took out her overmatched, younger opponent, intercollegiate No. 13 Claire Rein-Weston, in routine fashion...
...took gritty play from up and down the ladder to take out a Penn (8-3, 3-3) team that wouldn’t go down quietly. It may not have been pretty, but it was efficient, as the Crimson subdued the feisty Quakers...
Hall also praised the play of freshmen Audrey Duboc and Lydia Williams, who were bumped up to No. 2 and 3 on the ladder, respectively, with the Crimson’s usual No. 2—junior intercollegiate No. 8 Lindsey Wilkins—absent from the match at a job interview...
...ladder, co-captain and intercollegiate No. 4 Louisa Hall fell to intercollegiate No. 2 Amina Helal...