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...that's not all. "We have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin," said Evans. So is the President's approval rating in textile states, for it is hard to see what else could explain the new quotas. "U.S. imports from China," Evans said, "are five times greater than our exports." The illiteracy here is the assumption that imports are bad and that the purpose of trade between nations is to expand exports--a fallacy that was exploded, oh, sometime in the 1830s. The point of free trade is to allow economies to specialize in what they do best...
...modern city, offering the best street food, local crafts, Yuletide decorations and, for kids, clowns and rides. In Prague's Old Town Square, check out the dried-flower decorations and hand-embroidered tablecloths as you build up your appetite for lázenské oplatky (huge wafer-thin cookies with a sugary filling), washed down with punch and mead. The market in Brussels stretches from the 17th century Grand Place to Place Sainte-Catherine with its open-air ice rink; the highlight is the Manège d'Andréa, a surrealist carousel with flying frogs, bionic spacemen...
...when Ferdinand Magellan claimed the archipelago for Spain?and ended up dead after a battle with local chieftain Lapu Lapu. Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle starts with an excerpt from a contemporary account of Magellan's Philippine visit, which describes comely native women clad in nothing but thin strips of bark "before their privies," suggesting that conquest can be inspired as much by lust as God and king...
Last weekend, lacking cinematic inspiration, I went to see Love Actually. It was crap, actually. The plot was so thin it almost certainly had an eating disorder. The acting was unremarkable; the jokes were patchily amusing, but consistently predictable. It was, in short, exactly the kind of movie you go to over a holiday weekend and then instantly begin to forget...
...surprised Kucinich has such thin skin,” Griffin says...