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...ravenous for luxury items such as aerosol cosmetics and air conditioners, and Chinese industry cannot make them fast enough. In the early 1980s China produced 500,000 refrigerators a year; now it churns out some 8 million annually. The Chinese environmental protection agency says it wants the country to switch to non-CFC technologies, but does not have the authority to make industry...
...position is more important than before. A new window of opportunity has opened for us with the Turkic republics. They speak our language. ((Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan speak Turkic languages. In Tajikistan the language is akin to Iranian Farsi.)) We are urging them to remain secular and to switch to the Latin alphabet...
...leading cause of preventable death in America, and a major contributor to our competitively crippling health care costs, is smoking. The tobacco companies claim they don't want kids to start smoking, that they spend $3 billion a year advertising in the U.S. merely to get people to switch brands. Fine. Let's give them antitrust exemption to agree among themselves: no more advertising or promotion of any kind. Market shares would be frozen where they are, and the companies would have an extra $3 billion a year in profits. How can they complain about that? Smoking should obviously...
...clock and are expected to make up the difference upon crossing the border -- presumably by burning up the rails. Airliners traveling to Ukraine are reported to be arriving an hour before air-traffic controllers in Kiev expect them. There is little hope for relief until all the republics switch to daylight saving time next March...
...Soviet Union -- Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -- the answer may be cultural identity. As the 55 million inhabitants of the republics, most of them Muslims, consider a new written form of expression to replace the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, the choice has taken on geopolitical implications. Turkey, whose switch from Arabic to Latin script 64 years ago symbolized its shift toward Western-style democracy, wants the republics to follow its lead. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Iran are pressuring them to adopt Arabic script -- and, they hope, a Middle Eastern point of view. Some diplomats think the West won Round...