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Chinese shoppers are used to warnings about tainted food. According to a November report by the Asian Development Bank, food-borne disease affects 300 million Chinese per year, costing up to $14 billion in lost productivity and medical expenses. But a recent string of high-profile health scares involving toxic ingredients has consumers worried about more than a stomachache...
...value of its energy exports. As Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin has pointed out, the energy crisis of the 1970s helped the Soviet economy--even as it hurt the West--by bathing the ailing Soviet system in petrodollars. But as oil prices slid below an average price of $20 per bbl. from 1986 to 1996, Russian power slid too. It's no coincidence that the price of oil touched $11 in Yeltsin's miserable last year...
...Kazmaier Award is given to the woman who “displays the highest standards of personal and team excellence during the season.” Chu, whose unselfish play is reflected in her remarkable goals to assist ratio (16 goals to 42 assists) leads the nation in points per game at 2.38. She described being a finalist as “a great honor” but insisted that the honor was not entirely her own.“It’s not a personal award, but a great reflection of my team,” she said...
...Yale’s main threat is junior guard Eric Flato. Flato ranks fourth in the Ivy League in both scoring and assists, averaging 15.3 points per game and 3.43 assists per game. He is the reigning Ivy League co-player of the week after averaging 22 points in road games at Columbia and Cornell...
...Bears are led by junior guard Mark McAndrew, the other reigning Ivy League co-Player of the Week Harvard will see this weekend. McAndrew is third in the league in both scoring and three-point field goal percentage. He is averaging 15.7 points per game and shooting 44.2 percent from long range. His 61 made threes rank him second in the league behind Ryan Wittman of Cornell...