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...like conservatives. I like the way they feel about unions, globalization, farm subsidies, helmet laws, states' rights, animal rights, affirmative action, the environment, free trade and Ted Kennedy. I also like the way their women dye their hair really blond and flare their nostrils when they're angry. But the reason I can't get down with the conservatives, despite my libertarian leanings, is their absolutism. Rush Limbaugh has long been rabidly antidrug, saying all users should be locked away. Yet when he came back on the air after just five weeks of rehab for addiction to some drug...
Before it lands on your back, a cashmere sweater has completed an epic transformation. First, hair must be gathered during the molting season from the inner coat of special goats, the majority of which live in the coldest regions of China and Mongolia. Then the fiber has to be shipped to factories experienced in its production--the best are in Italy and Scotland--where it is spun into yarn, dyed and woven. The scarcity of the raw material has historically ensured a high price for the final product, sealing cashmere's reputation as a luxury fabric...
...past several years, China has ramped up its textile production and reduced prices (igniting trade tension with the U.S.). Many of the cashmere garments, however, are not made wholly of the downy undercoat of the goat, where the fibers are long and fine. Occasionally these fibers get mixed with hairs from the outer layer, which are short and thick. This translates into less expensive sweaters, but also ones that are coarse and scratchy. They don't drape as sinuously or maintain their shape as well, and they don't provide the lifetime commitment most people seek from their cashmere. They...
There is also a more nefarious possibility: label fraud, something the industry's umbrella group, Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, takes very seriously. Karl Spilhaus, the group's president, approaches the task of uncovering ersatz cashmere as soberly as an old-master specialist does in debunking fake Rembrandts. He has brought suit against stores for selling products labeled "100% cashmere" that he claims are in fact mere blends...
...Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index closed at 38,915.87. Some 14 years later, the Nikkei is at 10,410.15--a 73% cumulative loss during a period when U.S. stocks quadrupled in value. Yet suddenly the Japanese market is hopping. The Nikkei is up 17% this year, just a hair behind U.S. stocks...