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...factories in nearby Marinha Grande. The delicate glass, often richly colored, was a by-product of Portugal's maritime ambitions: 700 years ago, the monarchy needed ships and ordered the planting of 12,000 hectares of pine forest to provide timber and control the shifting coastal sands. Those two raw materials attracted glassmakers to the area in the 18th century; the region has been a centre for the industry ever since. Today Leiria produces 45,000 tons of glassware (worth €175 million), and exports three-quarters of it. The first glass factory in the area was founded...
What do guys want that they can't get from the networks? Sex, sure, but, more than that, danger and authenticity--the raw, unbleeped real deal, unpredictable and without a five-second delay. Now they get that from cable (up 1.5% during prime time) and video games (up 17.6%), which have no federal chaperones. Lose the guys, and you lose millions in ad revenue. Alienate the FCC, especially in an election year, and you risk millions in fines. The networks are caught between an irresistible force and an implacable object...
...Pentagon continued to insist that the abuses were confined to the sadistic impulses of the midnight shift at the prison. Senators and Representatives who crowded secure rooms on the Hill to watch nearly 1,800 unpublished pictures flash by, along with about half a dozen grainy videotapes, got a raw eyeful of just how perverse those particular soldiers had been. One of the videos seems to show a G.I. preparing to sodomize a male detainee. A still shot portrays an anguished female prisoner lifting her shirt to expose her breasts. Another photo zeroes in on the face and torso...
...every time the world's newest economic debutante adjusts her corset. China's $1.41 trillion economy is, after all, only the world's sixth largest (one-eighth the size of the U.S.'s and less than half of Japan's). But China's voracious demand for the world's raw materials and its burgeoning consumer markets means that the country has taken on outsized importance as an engine of global economic growth. Since 1995, China's GDP has doubled and its imports have tripled, making it an increasingly important trading partner for export-driven economies such as Japan, where trade...
...Obviously, that's bad news if you happen to be in the business of selling, say, iron to China. But a slowdown would be welcome in many quarters. China's appetite for raw materials has been Brobdingnagian. The country consumed 40% of the world's cement, 31% of the world's coal and 27% of its steel last year, helping drive up prices for many commodities, such as metals, by 50%. But prices have been falling for several weeks, to the delight of many. Jeffrey Sheu, spokesman for Taiwan-based bicycle maker Giant Manufacturing, applauds China's efforts to rein...