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...explain why, despite a trade surplus of $123 billion with the U.S. last year, China's worldwide surplus was a slim $25.6 billion. As America's imports from China have risen, its imports from Taiwan, Singapore and Japan have declined. China has achieved this critical global role not by protecting its economy but by throwing it open. Tariff rates are comparatively low, and last year it attracted some $53 billion in foreign investment. Accusations that China manipulates its currency miss the point. The yuan is pegged to the dollar, which has dropped in value over the past year. So Chinese...
...captors showed what he called a "disgusting" video of him that had been shot while he was drugged. His earlier versions of the story "did not reflect the truth and were made under coercion," Rybkin wrote in a statement released at his press conference. "I was trying to protect the safety of my family and of myself." He added that he took a blood test in London and a doctor "gave me a preliminary opinion that perhaps not only was something poured into my tea or added to the food, but also a gas mask was very likely used...
Following the first American case of the disease two months ago, an International Review Subcommittee (IRS) appointed by the U.S. secretary of agriculture issued a report expressing concerns that current regulations in place do not fully protect U.S. beef consumers. Swiss researcher Dr. Ulrich Kihm, who co-chaired IRS, has said that there could be up to one case of mad cow disease per month...
...team has made strides. They have created an innovative mechanism to protect students walking home on weekend nights. A roaming force of escorts on the streets will combine with extended van service and a new transportation hotline. And Kidd and her committee have streamlined a community advisory system that in the past sometimes failed to alert students of assaults...
...context of the republic and its schools. Wearing ostentatious religious symbols while representing the nation as a public servant or by receiving taxpayer-funded public education is an affront to French values. One need not necessarily share those values in order to concede that France is entitled to protect them. Admittedly, this policy is not only about France’s eighteenth-century republican ideals, but also about the contemporary challenges to those ideals. While the law’s ultimate purpose is to safeguard secularism, its immediate result will be to force adolescent girls who insist on wearing...