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...rice, corn and other cereals. China has officially committed to reduce import tariffs as part of its membership of the World Trade Organization. And the advent of stores like VIN, albeit catering only to privileged citizens, may presage some bigger trend in the future. "Wine has become very popular, particularly among young upper-middle-class Chinese, and in particular young upper-middle-class and wealthy Chinese women with a lot of disposable income," enthuses Leah Liu, the China marketing manager for Hong Kong-based Jebsen & Co., the firm behind VIN and an importer of high-end luxury goods throughout China...
...history. The general education proposal says as much; according to it, the Reason and Faith requirement’s aim “is to help students understand the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices, and ideas.” We do not believe that religious ideas in particular should be given a platform greater than other social and political forces, and bracketing these ideas as such gives them preeminence incommensurate with their proper place in understanding the modern world. That is not to say that religious notions are not important, but that they do not in any discernable...
...think about killing on a battlefield, why isn’t it murder? Well one of the reasons that it’s not murder is that soldiers, if they act in particular ways, if they’re wearing uniforms and so forth, they are privileged to kill. “Privilege” is a technical legal term that means they are enabled to kill combatants and also civilians so long as they are doing it for a legitimate military purpose and injury to civilians is necessary to achieve their military objective. That’s where...
...important, however, to recognize that as natural as it may seem to throw the discussions of gender and sexuality into one program, doing so has the potential to force superficial connections between topics whose relation to each other is tenuous at best. In particular, on the women and gender studies end, issues such as women’s suffrage and female contributions in the realm of wars, politics, and science have little, if anything, to do with sexuality, and instead are primarily concerned with the historical influence of gender roles on larger society...
...study has shown that making change with pennies adds three seconds to every cash transaction. Penny elimination would save us all time and help us avoid that one customer who insists on paying with exact change, earning stares as dirty as his currency. On the other side of this particular coin, however, is that sole, intangible, conclusive argument against abolition—the poor penny is a beloved American institution; people will fight to keep it that way, regardless of the mounting number of facts to persuade us otherwise. The greatest obstacle to fixing the penny problem is cultural awareness...