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Said newcomer Dan Nguyen, who watched from the stands with a groin injury, “[Compared] to college tennis, my game is rather raw, so to speak, so just practicing and training with these guys [is helpful...
ENDANGERED BRIE Regulations on unpasteurized cheese are more strictly enforced, aimed at barring European raw-milk cheeses less than 60 days old as a health risk...
...sometimes clashed. These items, mostly from recent excavations and on display outside Sudan for the first time, help to fill in the outlines of human history from the Paleolithic period to the end of Ottoman rule in Sudan in 1885. A 200,000-year-old pebble found among raw ochre lumps on Sai Island in the Nile appears to be smeared with yellow and red pigment. If the color was consciously applied, the stone is one of the earliest indications of artistic expression ever found. Sandstone lions from the mid-1st century B.C. symbolize the Kushite state, and a gilded...
...tumult in one Chinese industrial backwater may seem a minor concern, but it has ominous overtones for the rest of Asia. China's fast-growing economy and voracious appetite for raw materials (as well as for cars, cell phones and other middle-class baubles) has made it an increasingly key trading partner for its neighbors. Demand from China, for example, played a large role in hauling Japan's export-driven economy out of a prolonged slump. The mainland's neighbors have already been warily monitoring Beijing's efforts to cool overheated sectors such as real estate, fearful that clampdowns...
...country's grimy industrial trenches, the crunch is on. Kim Jong Gwan, manager of a factory west of Seoul, says he paid 74? per kilogram at the start of the year for the raw materials he uses to make plastic pipes. Today the price is $1.04. To keep costs down, the factory started using more recycled polyethylene pellets, but competitors are doing the same and the cost of recycled material has jumped 20% and will be up 40% by the end of the year. Kim tried to raise prices, but customers threatened to switch suppliers. So he now finds himself...