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ecessity is the mother of adaption as well as invention.Reuters reports that a business-serv

he U.S. government has sent a clear, simple message to China about its proposal to slap stiff contro

On a day in which the breadth of the horizon off Key West, Fla., is painted the hue of a robin egg,

Sam Banks was his usual ebullient self on the morning of the last day of his 29-year career at the U

Many investors and observers were scurrying in search of a safety blanket last month after Time Warn

''Anyone can become a hero'' was the refrain to a popular Russian song called ''March of the Happy-G

Yesterday was Groundhog Day, when Punxsutawney Phil enjoyed his traditional five minutes of fame. I

aio Koch-Weser, the German candidate for the leadership of the International Monetary Fund, deserves

Is it possible the First World will give China a virtual monopoly in agricultural biotechnology, des

olls aren't the only part of the motor-transportation experience that high technology is changing.

So, have you been wondering what this open-source, free-software thing is all about, but thinking yo

ritain is officially a member of the European Union, but not all its citizens are entirely convinced

resident Clinton ardently straddled the sides of the globalization issue over the weekend, eloquentl

Under headlines like ''Surplus to Soar,'' the Congressional Budget Office's just-released Budget and

If common carriage isn't dead, it's at least on life support.For those readers who do not re

The busted forecast for last week's East Coast snowstorm points to a very troubling aspect of modern

You've probably seen the Macintosh commercials on television that show how you can direct, edit and

I agree with former Maritime Administrator Warren Leback (''U.S. maritime industry past the Band-Aid

he good news is that auto theft in Brazil isn't nearly as bad as statistics indicate. The bad news i

Within a fortnight or so, an epoch ends: Michel Camdessus retires after 13 years of heading the Inte

The Shakers were a 19th century Christian sect, largely in upstate New York and New England, that di

Last September, when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met his Canadian counterpart, Jean Chretien, for

If nothing else, the euro's slide below parity with the dollar last week focused the attention of 29

The government's revised encryption rules have arrived, and while many of the old restrictions are g

Your cargo - say, an expensive piece of industrial machinery - was seriously damaged somewhere betwe

It's just past 9 a.m. on a Tuesday, and Bob Mulshine is talking lunch.The menu isn't importa

There's growing concern in the international financial community about the U.S. economy. If there wa

f nothing else, President Clinton is a compelling speaker and a masterly politician - two attributes

I hope that those who don't have much interest in Montreal and the North Atlantic trades will forgiv

Your article on the recent decision by the California Superior Court concerning the tax status of ce

The merger of AOL and Time Warner may be grabbing headlines, but other high-profile mergers in recen

hese are days of dark uncertainty on the world trade scene, days that are both unsettled and unsettl

Following the arrival of a largely Y2K-bug-free new year, there has been much public questioning abo

Prunes put off young people who think of them as an old person's laxative. So the Prune Council is t

The most frequently cited cause for the breakdown of the World Trade Organization's ministerial meet

apanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi apparently thinks there should be more to international summit m

Pessimists have found plenty of reasons in recent years to trash South Africa's economic prospects.<

What will become of Elian Gonzalez, the boy, now in Florida, who survived a boat accident that claim

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The world's export farmers recently got a terrific present for the 21st century: The 15-country Euro