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...local level, Muslims are achieving greater acceptance and religious tolerance. In Dearborn, Mich., where 10% to 15% of the population is Arabic, public schools recognize Muslim holy days and do not serve pork in cafeterias. To accommodate modesty rules, girls learn to swim in all-female classes and are allowed to wear slacks instead of shorts for other gym instruction...
...West as Canton, seethes with enterprise. The Dongping Street free market is filled with stalls selling all sorts of food: fish swimming in tubs of fresh water, poultry, a greengrocer's delight of vegetables and fruits. Most important is a bountiful selection of grades and cuts of pork, which has been rationed in such huge cities as Beijing and Shanghai...
...benefits -- and pitfalls -- of Zhao's coastal approach are most visible in the contrast between Guangdong and Hunan. Since 1985, for example, Guangdong has allowed the price of pork to rise, as it did earlier with other foodstuffs. Popular demand not only spurred local pig production but, with Guangdong merchants paying more than twice the state-controlled price of 2.80 yuan per kg (35 cents per lb.) for pork in Hunan, also began to siphon off the output of pig farms in the neighboring province. As a result, the supply of pork decreased dramatically in Hunan's state-subsidized markets...
...aboard Air Force Two. The Vice President's plane is less a floating palace than a flying Motel 6 -- frayed brown seats, rickety mustard- yellow baggage racks. Bush and staff munch on popcorn and the Vice President's favorite snack food: fried pork rinds with Tabasco sauce. On the ritzier press plane, reporters dine on whitefish, smoked salmon and crabmeat...
...whole, have been accused of intensifying the market's mood swings. But a turf battle has erupted between two Government agencies over which one deserves the right to crack the whip. Should it be the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which presides over futures trading in soybeans and pork bellies, or its sister agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, which watches over the stock markets...