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Many of the pact's effects have been celebrated. Intra-North American trade has more than tripled since NAFTA's inception, and the value of U.S. agricultural exports worldwide has climbed by 65 percent. Agricultural trade in both directions between Mexico and the U.S. increased from $7.3 billion in 1994 to $20.1 billion in 2006. Trade between the three parties currently accounts for about 80 percent of Canadian and Mexican trade and more than a third of U.S. trade...
...treaty was ratified, independent U.S. Presidential candidate Ross Perot famously warned voters to prepare for the "giant sucking sound" of jobs moving across the border to Mexico, where NAFTA would enable companies to take advantage of cheap labor. Mexico's average hourly manufacturing wage is still only about 13 percent of that of the U.S., but even with that persistent disparity, most jobs these days aren't being shipped to America's southern neighbor. Instead, they're going to China, whose explosive economic growth in recent years has posed a far more serious threat to all North American employment...
...pick between two models of digital camera. Model A, the subjects were told, took sharper photos, and model B took ones that were more vivid. They were shown examples of photos taken with each camera, and told they'd never print a photo larger than the sample. Twenty-six percent of people chose model A. Yet when another group was told the same thing, and given the additional information that model A was a 4-megapixel camera while model B was a 2-megapixel version, a full 75% chose model A. "People say, I don't trust my own experience...
...Crimson in scoring, and added four assists, moving into third place on Harvard’s all-time assists list. Tay and sophomore Emma Markley each had 16 points. In the end, the Crimson could not overcome a large difference in shooting percentage. Harvard shot just 37.5 percent from the field while the Trojans hit 54 percent. “I loved our patience and our balance, but some of out shots just didn’t fall,” Delaney-Smith said. USC used a 16-2 run in the middle of the first half to take...
...thrilling ending masked some ugly second-half shooting numbers in the Crimson box score. After shooting well in the first half (44 percent), Harvard connected on just eight of 34 attempts from the field—including four of 13 from three...