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...working on his breaking ball this year—hoping to see a little bit more of that this weekend. Last weekend he was fastball, change. If we get those three pitches going for him, I think he’s got a chance for a real good outing...
...Walsh said. “He’s not your usual closer being a left-hander and more of a curveballer, but you just don’t seem to get a good piece off him, and he’s been pitching real well...
...rise a bit is plain enough: At a moment when much of the world is still trying to climb out of a disinflationary hole, China's got a burgeoning inflation problem. Prices are rising at about 3% annually now, and it's now got its own real estate bubble to deal with. Cooling things off a bit is clearly the government's priority this year, and a rising currency helps. It makes imports more affordable for Chinese consumers, and thus puts pressure on domestic producers to hold the line on price increases. But the Chinese leadership needed to ensure that...
...surplus declined by about half as a percentage of its overall economy - that adjustment phase is over. Exports will again add to GDP growth in China this year, and in an era of high unemployment in the U.S. and Europe, the potential for a serious protectionist backlash is very real. (Indeed, a team from Treasury slipped quietly into Beijing recently to make just this point.) For administrations going back to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, it's been a tried a true strategy: Tell your trading partner to give you something, because you might not be able to hold back...
...Threat Is Real HEU is of particular concern because of the relative ease with which it can be turned into a mushroom cloud. The uranium bomb exploded over Hiroshima was never tested, so simple was its mechanism. Peter Zimmerman, former chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says a group of terrorists in possession of HEU could build an atom bomb using readily available hardware at a cost of around $2 million; if detonated in a city, such a bomb could kill hundreds of thousands. In Chile, I asked Bieniawski if he felt confident that al-Qaeda was still...