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...requiring ever more energy, the country is damming a significant part of its length of the Mekong River, threatening fishing and transportation in the five nations downstream. In 1998, China banned some domestic logging to protect its dwindling forests, but the Asian giant's appetite for disposable chopsticks and plywood furniture has hardly abated. Log imports--second only to the U.S.'s--more than quadrupled from 1996 to 2003, according to the World Wildlife Fund. China's appetite for resources extends even to the Amazon. By the middle of next year, Brazil and Peru hope to have built a transcontinental...
...area. The men were from Toyota, which has been trying with scant success for years to persuade Americans to dump their Ford and Chevy pickups--the cowboy Cadillacs of the heartland--for a Toyota. Spending hours observing folks as they tailgated, hitched up horse trailers and hauled everything from plywood to goat sheds, the Japanese took copious notes, even if they still couldn't quite understand the American lovefest with the pickup. "There was a level of amazement," says Jim Press, chief operating officer of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A...
...program calls for tariffs to be reduced or eliminated on 1,853 products, including telecommunications equipment, auto parts and plywood. In addition the government will make a fresh start at dismantling the maze of regulations that hamper efforts by foreign companies to sell in Japan. Imported cars, for example, will no longer have to be inspected at the Ministry of Transport, though they will still be looked over by dealers. Companies that sell foreign-made nail polish will not have to get government approval for each new color. Importers of pharmaceuticals will not need a license from the Health...
...Jupiter, Fla., a CAPS-trained interior designer. "There is a certain amount of denial," says Thomas dryly. Instead of convincing his 50-plus clients of the benefits of universal design, Thomas' firm automatically includes accessibility in the specifications. "I'll just order a higher toilet or add extra-strong plywood behind the bathroom walls so someday a grab bar can be installed," he says. "But we don't tell them anymore. We just go ahead and do it. It's part of an effective design package...
...didn’t attend school together, they lived some five minutes away from each another in their native Ontario and saw each other often, playing hockey in the Corriero basement that had been furnished for hockey. Designed by Nicholas Corriero, Nicole’s father, the plywood-covered room boasts a shooting range, a net, and a wooden goalie—a prerequisite to their future power plays with Harvard...