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...China, for example, are made by a Taiwan-owned company called Compal using Taiwanese circuitry, a U.S.-made Intel chip and a screen from Korea. All those imported parts 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...
Front runner John Kerry was caught last week saying his chances of winning the South are slim. "Everyone always makes the mistake of looking South," he told a Dartmouth College crowd, in a clip Karl Rove surely downloaded for future use. "Al Gore proved he could have been President of the United States without winning one Southern state, including his own." But Gore didn't become President. And Kerry didn't mention Edwards' favorite bit of presidential trivia: no Democrat has been elected without winning at least five Southern states. "What I give [Democrats] is a candidate...
Elsewhere, Kerry easily took the Missouri primary with 51 percent of the vote, while Edwards came in second with less than half that total. Gen. Wesley K. Clark took Oklahoma by a slim margin—almost 1,300 votes—last night...
...It’s a very tough job market out there, and I have two children,” he said. “The chances of finding anything at Harvard are very slim, because people aren’t retiring. It’s a really scary time...
...advisory committee found that the potential for misuse or abuse of the morning-after pill is slim. Opponents charge that easy access to the emergency contraceptive would lead to an over-reliance on the pill as a primary form of birth control. But according to a recent Planned Parenthood study, most women who had used Plan B did not mean to substitute it for more reliable contraceptives like the birth control pill. Nor is it likely that the morning-after pill will replace other contraceptives in the future, considering the high incidence of side effects like nausea and abdominal pain...