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...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 and half of its cameras and photocopiers. U.S. towns identified with products that seem uniquely American - think A.T. Cross Pen of Lincoln, Rhode Island - have been hurt as employers shift at least some production to China. Companies in Europe are also feeling the pain. Competition from Chinese manufacturers helped push exports of Italian textiles down by around 6% in 2002. And over the past year, cheap Chinese imports of everything...
...these products falls sharply. Still, you have an excuse tomorrow when your significant other comes looking for the Valentine’s Day gift you forgot to purchase: it was all in the name of conscientious consumption. You can make a date of it. Sit down together with pen and paper and write a few Valentines to the two major cocoa purchasers in the U.S.—M&M/Mars and Hershey’s—asking them to buy fair trade chocolate and put an end to child slavery. If your date is still not satisfied, head...
DIED. ALEXANDRA RIPLEY, 70, author of Scarlett, the sanctioned sequel to Gone With the Wind; of unspecified natural causes; in Richmond, Va. She had written five historical novels before being selected by the estate of Margaret Mitchell to pen a sequel to the beloved Civil War saga. Published in 1991, Scarlett got poor reviews but spent 34 weeks on the best-seller list...
...revised form would require party hosts to pen a “commitment signature” obligating them to keep noise to a minimum, especially to ensure that students exiting Quad parties do not disturb the residents on Garden Street...
...chicken population, possibly mutating and becoming more pathogenic as it goes. The culprit this time is the same as in Hong Kong in 1997: the H5N1 influenza virus. Historically, this virus has wreaked havoc mainly on poultry. Among chickens, the disease manifests itself as a hemorrhagic fever, turning a pen of healthy birds into a bloody mass of goop and feathers within 24 hours. Since the 1960s, each reported appearance of the disease has drawn a rapid response from international health officials concerned more about the potential for human infection than the loss of a few feathered friends...