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...result one day could be a huge surplus of Chinese-made cars looking for markets elsewhere. Chery aims to lead the way. Americans in the 1980s turned up their noses at the ultracheap Yugo, which Bricklin introduced from Yugoslavia, and Chery still has to meet U.S. safety and emissions standards. The real threat will come from foreign makers in China with nowhere to sell their cars. "If they can compete on price, Ford and Nissan will likely start exporting" to America within a decade, predicts Eric Harwit, a professor at the University of Hawaii who researches China's auto industry...
...united Europe,” said Croatian President Stipe Mesic the day after the event. Mesic, in Rome with observer status, hopes that his country will begin negotiations for EU accession in the near future. Of the six countries which emerged in the 1990s from the former Yugoslavia, only Slovenia has joined the EU. Despite the usual European carnival of controversy, then, something important seems afoot...
...mistake followed the other, and the price was in human lives." SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, former President of Yugoslavia, explaining the events that led to civil war in his former nation, during his trial for war crimes in the Hague...
...Then, in 1992, Fischer resurfaced to play a rematch with Spassky in Yugoslavia, where Americans were forbidden from doing business because of its government's support of Serbian aggression in Bosnia...
Stojkovic, who fled Yugoslavia in 1991 just before the Balkan wars broke out, is on the front lines of the cloning wars. He helped clone mammals at the University of Munich before going to Britain. Now, using a technique similar to one recently demonstrated in South Korea, he plans to create embryos by injecting a patient's DNA into an egg from which the genetic material has been removed. He then hopes to harvest the embryonic stem cells--which can develop into almost any organ--and coax them to produce insulin in diabetics. Stem cells may also hold promise...