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...implementing them. "It builds a climate in which trade liberalization is seen as the right direction," says Heseltine. "To resile from that, to move backward, actually becomes very hard." For a quick measure of APEC's effectiveness, says Oxley, contrast Vietnam and Venezuela. Vietnam, embracing APEC's open-market model, is flourishing; Venezuela, outside APEC and with an anti-free-market government, is an economic mess...
...address the issue," Downer says, "it would be a very big step forward." Alan Oxley, chairman of the Australian APEC Study Center at Monash University, agrees. "The Chinese will not accept the sort of regulation Kyoto proposes," he says. "But they are showing increasing interest in the AP6 model. So there's a significant opportunity for APEC to influence the global regime." The outcome, he says, could be a multitrack system: "If the Europeans want to regulate, let them, but there's got to be recognition that other nations want to reduce emissions by other means...
...chemotherapy and radiation and a host of side effects. I have been free of cancer for nearly 20 years, and with the medication I'm on, I stand a good chance of a normal life. Survivor Karen Dyer, featured in your report, is a wonderful role model. She has shown that one can survive cancer and live a normal life thereafter. The only difference between Karen's story and my own? Mine takes place in South Africa. Timothy Wallace, Ermelo, South Africa
...revival-meeting preacher. Playing to a friendly crowd, Sarkozy vowed to further lower taxes, reduce companies' salary-linked labor costs, cut thousands of jobs from the civil service, legalize Sunday trading, generally liberalize France's labor market and adopt a small business act using the American law as his model...
...principal right in a democracy is the right to be left alone - but most everyone else bemoans the fact that only about half of us vote and don't do much more than send in our returns on April 15. The truth is, even the archetype of the model citizen is mostly a myth. Except for times of war and the colonial days, we haven't been all that energetic about keeping the Republic...