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...trade officials say the strategy is to "shut down trade in the targeted products," and thereby create sufficient pressure in affected sectors to unblock the deadlock over the E.U. beef ban. "Imports of Roquefort cheese have continued since 1999, notwithstanding the imposition of 100% duties," U.S. trade spokeswoman Gretchen Hamel told the AFP. "We expect that a 300% duty will have the desired effect on imports...
...frustrated until Sarkozy's election to the French presidency in May - curiously, he had made defending "the Bulgarian nurses" one of his campaign promises. Although no one in France is certain why Sarkozy took the plight of the Bulgarians so close to heart, his involvement has done wonders to unblock what long appeared to be a hopeless situation. Under the Sarko-led diplomatic push, Libya's Higher Judicial Council commuted the capital sentences to life in prison after families of victims agreed to accept around a million dollars each in compensation to be distributed by the Ghaddafi Foundation. Meanwhile, official...
Wherever I went in the house, I carried both cordless and cell phones and the laptop. At one point, I was under the bathroom sink, failing to unblock the U bend, when she called to say, "I'm coming up on Oklahoma City. How do I get from I-40 to I-44?" A few mouse clicks, a look at the map, and I was able to talk her through the interchange. (That happened more often as she moved east to larger cities like St. Louis, Mo., and Indianapolis, Ind.) On the second night, Gabby found a place to stay...
...Hollywood used to attack suspected communists: with a blacklist. For $4.99 a month, SpamNet www.cloudmark.com checks your incoming mail against its own ever expanding database. The service's 475,000-plus members contribute by "voting" on what's spam and what isn't, using the BLOCK and UNBLOCK buttons that the SpamNet program adds to your Outlook task bar. Enough votes from individual members and a message is blocked for all. With thousands of reports coming in every second, it can be pretty effective...
...have managed to get this far--bodysurfing on each new wave of knowledge--with the help of two multiple coronary bypasses (1976, 1993), an angioplasty with stents (successful just the other day; a couple of efforts to unblock other coronary tunnels by angioplasty failed painfully), and a supporting cast of ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, cholesterol thwarters, diuretics, aspirin to make the platelets slippery, nitroglycerine, blood-pressure suppressants, vitamin E, folic acid, a rowing machine, a stoic personality and the diet of a desert mystic. It goes without saying that a heart attack is also a good way to quit smoking...