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...Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, as the city is officially known, is literally at Hong Kong's border. After immigration, a visitor walks across a narrow bridge spanning a stinking, black canal?the first whiff of something rotten in the air?and steps directly into a city overeager to offer its wares. The first building to confront new arrivals is a six-storied, mirrored monument to China's status as the world's counterfeit capital. Shops display perfect replicas of Armani suits, Gucci handbags, Nike trainers, Rolex watches, Cartier jewelry, as well as racks of pirated videos and discs. Outside, televisions...
...this year, he doesn't just go up hacking anymore-and it shows. So far this season, he has almost three hits for every whiff. He has also fanned just once every 7.8 plate appearances, a remarkable ratio. But the most telling statistic-disciples of Peter Gammons will appreciate this-might be his robust .1073 OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage). In layman's terms, that basically means Carter is always either on base or driving in the people...
...least of the reasons that NAEP is something of a dirty word among local-control conservatives in the House -is the fact that the first word in its title - National - has a whiff of federal control. But without it, education experts say, it is virtually impossible to develop meaningful performance comparisons among the states. Watering down the NAEP and testing provisions is "disastrous and takes away the heart and spirit of the legislation and the ability to overturn the status quo," says Kelly Amis, program director of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative-leaning research group that supports measures...
...There was a whiff of politics amid the reek of burning carcasses. Prime Minister Tony Blair had hoped to hold local and national elections May 3, but he risks incurring the wrath of rural voters if he lets the ballot go ahead while a highly infectious disease restricts the movement of people as well as livestock. Draconian slaughter, perhaps, could contain and defeat the infection before May. But Labour's strength among rural voters, never great, had diminished over the party's drive to ban fox hunting and will plummet further with the cull. "There will be many tears...
While Europe's internal embargoes are, by some measures, stricter than the USDA's, some in the European community detect a whiff of protectionism in Washington's moves. David Byrne, E.U. health commissioner, called the new regulations "excessive and unnecessary." The French newspaper Le Figaro groused that the world is "divided between contaminated countries and those barricading themselves behind drastic health and commercial barriers." The French government, however, has remained tellingly quiet. And in Germany, the media voiced full-throated approval of the new restrictions. "Animals are being dragged through the whole world in huge numbers," wrote the daily Tagesspiel...