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...deal giving it broad powers to block Chinese products that "surge" into the market--no proof of dumping or other wrongdoing required. As elections draw near, pressure to use those powers could come from people like Doug Bartlett. His father started Bartlett Manufacturing, a circuit-board maker in Cary, Ill., in 1952. By 2000, the family business had $22 million in sales and employed 180 people...
DIED. PAUL SIMON, 75, deeply earnest former Democratic Senator from Illinois and one-time presidential candidate; of complications from heart surgery; in Springfield, Ill. With a uniform of horn-rimmed glasses and bow tie, and no college degree, he was an unlikely politician. But after making a name for himself as the corruption-busting editor-publisher of a weekly newspaper, he was elected to the Illinois state legislature in 1954 and went on to serve five terms in the House of Representatives and two in the U.S. Senate. He made an ill-fated run for the presidency in 1988, dropping...
...King writes like a 14-year-old who tries, in his adolescent way and at great length, to shock his English teacher. I agree it's time a writer of genre literature earned some respect. I am just sorry the honor went to King. LISA LIPPITZ Bourbonnais, Ill...
...this year's World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers, whose innovations are making the world a healthier place by tackling malnutrition, combating diseases like AIDS and cancer and preventing the leading mechanized cause of death, car crashes. Some of these pioneering firms--like Optobionics, a company based in Naperville, Ill., that is perfecting a microchip to help the blind see--have a decidedly cyborg bent. Others use advanced computer technology to stimulate humans into action, like the dashboard equipment from Seeing Machines that detects when drivers become drowsy and then jolts them awake. And companies like Gilead and Procognia are helping...
...Crimson—thanks to Rogus—didn’t show many ill effects in the first half...