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...mark in a nation of 38 million, the government acknowledges that there are limits to people's patience. Elsewhere in the region those limits are already being tested. Earlier this month, when the Romanian government withdrew state subsidies on a wide range of goods, many prices more than doubled overnight. Workers and students took to the streets demanding the government's resignation and shouting slogans against President Ion Iliescu and Prime Minister Petre Roman: "Down with Iliescu!" and "Roman, resign!" Says Nica Leon, leader of the Free Democratic Party: "It is a very bleak economic picture. The shops are nearly...
Public acceptance of farmed fish has generally been good, in part because the busy shopper is more interested in freshness than provenance, and cultivation can virtually guarantee overnight delivery. Aquaculturists claim that their facilities have high hygienic standards, but whether wild or farmed, fish are not subject to continuous government inspection. About eight therapeutant drugs and some 30 other chemicals are allowed in the cultivation of fish, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and antibiotics are used extensively even in the genetic restructuring of some species. For instance, the triploid oyster, still in the experimental phase, is rendered...
...What gave him the courage to deep-six such a large shelf of certifiably lame literature, however, was an acceptance. The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a gritty, amiably cynical tale about barroom lowlifes and courthouse small-timers in Massachusetts, had been bought by Knopf. Higgins prepared, at last, for overnight success. What followed showed why novel writing is a chancy trade. Reviewers loved the novel. But Eddie Coyle never moved higher than fifth on the New York Times best-seller list, and in 12 months sold fewer than 25,000 copies. Failure? No, success; most first novels aren't reviewed...
This new drug enforcement policy won't turn the United States into a police state overnight. But every little extension of the military sphere must be taken with extreme caution. We must ask ourselves whether the advantages of military action justify the undermining of civil authority in a given problem area...
...selection as ambassador changed almost overnight the climate of Japan and U.S. relations," said Marius Jansen, a professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University...