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Trade-environment linkages: U.S. perspective
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Vietnam Set for WTO Membership
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Smoking your way to the presidency?
I was waiting for Reason to blog about this article in The New Republic. It focuses on the fact that presidential maybe-sayer Barack…
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Can money offset venality?
Prizes sponsored by private individuals and organizations seem to be the new way to provide incentives for technological and other advances. Now a wealthy…
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Fencing out emigrants better than building levees?
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Another doomsday report – Simon redux
Shades of Paul Ehrlich: WWF in a new report says that the earth cannot support its human population, especially those in the developed world…
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Nobel winner – friend of entreprenuers
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Foley – a friend to “Big Sugar”
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X PRIZE launches another prize – mapping genes
The foundation that gave a huge prize for launching a private spaceship yesterday announced a multi-million dollar prize for fast-track technology…
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Needed: Broad-based Coalition to Fight for Ag Reform
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New study shows promise, but not cure
A new study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows mixed results in dealing with Type 1 diabetes, also…
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Ring fingers and sports potential
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Is Mozart anti-Muslim?
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Of Mice and Men
A new study shows that mice that drink moderate amounts of wine everyday suffer from less memory loss and brain cell death. A huge…
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Incorrect correction of a correction
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Best Headline of the Day
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Oman Trade Agreement and Protectionism
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Liberty stands up to Spitzer
Sometimes — but not often — some companies hang in there if they’re convinced they are right. That seems to be the case…
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A typology for risk assessment?
New research may help to explain why the term “risk” shouldn’t automatically be applied to new technologies, such as biotechnology. According to…
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The Dwarfs Beat the Justices
Guess what — a new poll shows that the Seven Dwarfs are better known in the U.S. than the Supreme Court Justices. According to…
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Time to End Big Sugar’s Sweet Deal
Sugar is already shaping up to be a contentious issue in upcoming debates on the 2007 omnibus farm bill. The call for dismantling…
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Is the U.S. Sugar Problem Solvable?
The United States’ sugar policy has a long history of supporting sugar producers, and the current system has its roots in the agricultural programs of…
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Trade Liberalization Again Threatened by Agricultural Special Interests
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., October 20, 2005— The world's best hope for eliminating poverty – the continued liberalization…
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CAFTA, beneficios y despropósitos (Spanish), by Frances B. Smith
Washington (AIPE)- El Senado de Estados Unidos aprobó el acuerdo de libre comercio con Centroamérica y República Dominicana (CAFTA) el 30 de junio y…
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Unraveling CAFTA: Lobbyists vs. free trade, by Frances Smith
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Bush administration is taking a risky tack to garner House support for…
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CAFTA-DR: Can Free Trade Hold Up to Special Interest Siege? by Frances B. Smith
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Global Warming Web Site Offers News and Information
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Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce September 14-15, 1999 New York, New York Executive Summary Statement of Frances B. Smith Executive Director, Consumer Alert September 9,…
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DOJ Gets No Credit For Visa Complaint: Case Will Stifle Bank Card Innovation
The specter of the U.S. Department of Justice as "social engineer" — seeking to shape markets into a narrow and static mold of…
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The Human Costs of Global Warming Policy
Nine out of 10 Americans don’t know anything about U.S. global climate policy, according to a poll released in June 1997 by the Small Business…