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...rich countries, who have to pay higher prices and taxes than they would in a world where goods were traded freely. But those hurt by free trade--farmers and textile workers who might have to shift jobs--are always easier for politicians to identify and support than the much larger number who are helped by it. And remember: those helped include foreigners whose export earnings enable them to afford more U.S. products...
...event said the department has come a long way in half a century. Fifth-year graduate student Tingting Zhang, one of 20 students who presented their dissertations at the symposium, noted that “the department now offers more courses, and the range of courses is much larger.” At the undergraduate level, the department hosts a relatively small number of concentrators. According to the FAS Handbook for Students, nine members of the Class of 2002 concentrated in statistics, the highest figure in the past five years. The lowest came with the Class of 2005, which...
...details they are permitted to reveal, such as the identities of the two men arrested. Their names were revealed in a number of outlets on Oct. 29. Ian Strachan, aged 30, was described by the mass market daily, The Mirror, as "a Scots-born businessman" and by its larger rival, The Sun, as a "socialite smoothie." The other was identified as Sean McGuigan, aged 40, said to be Irish and, according to his neighbor quoted in the Evening Standard, "rough...
...global warming has become a mainstream topic of conversation; daily we’re presented with news segments or articles discussing some facet of the world’s climate. We, the larger public, listened to Gore and others like him precisely because they’re not just attention-whores from D.C. Gore’s brilliant maneuvering, based upon meaningful change, proves that a political solution and mass collective action are not mutually exclusive...
...people. After the devastating wildfires of 2003, 1993 and 1970, Californians rebuilt and returned to the scorched hills in ever greater numbers. No doubt they will do so again after the wildfires of 2007. But the larger question is, should they...