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...colors. The bright green, glassy jadeite, the substance most people think of when they think of jade, was not used extensively until the 18th century. Neither substance is indigenous to China; nephrite had to be imported from East Turkestan and Siberia and jadeite was carried from Burma. Jades were precious and exotic materials and were revered by the Chinese as substances possessing special moral as well as physical attributes...
...Exporter. Thus, in making the crucial decisions about how to allocate the precious state budget, Peking is likely to give priority to agriculture and light industry at the expense of heavy industry and weapons development. The deemphasis on military hardware is an indirect benefit of the easing of tensions with the U.S.; improved relations with Washington have led the Chinese to feel that the Soviets are less likely to attack them...
...struggle requiring the cooperation of all women, in all facets of their lives, including personal relationships. Radcliffe as an institution will never be able to convert the sexists; meanwhile, it gives them an excuse to ignore women and their rightful claims to Harvard's resources, its attention and its precious 300-year-old name...
...lesson Americans learn as schoolchildren is that every vote is precious. It is a lesson Americans also easily forget. Despite the striking evidence of how much each vote does indeed count-John F. Kennedy won the presidency by a margin of .2% of the votes cast in 1960, and Richard Nixon by .7% in 1968-tens of millions of Americans still stay away from the polls. An estimated 38% of the eligible voters cast ballots in the election last November...
Curiosity ran high in many parts of the U.S., jamming switchboards of precious-metals dealers and brokerages offering the metal. But actual sales were slow. During the first two days of trading, not a single sale was made in any of European-American Bank's 104 branches in the New York City area. Trading was brisk on half a dozen U.S. commodity exchanges, where gold-futures contracts were being traded along with futures for frozen pork bellies, hogs, cattle and eggs. In the first half-hour of frenzied trading at Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, dealers bought and sold...