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'Selling of American Economy' argues against protectionism

By Jon Rosen Special for, USA TODAY Whither the American worker? With the future of "Made in America" uncertain, protectionist sentiment has intensified, and many in the U.S. regard foreign companies as threats to the American...

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EN348 Twentieth Century Avant-Gardes: Culture, Politics, Contestation

Description: This module will examine the phenomenon of literary and artistic avant-gardism in the twentieth century, as part of an attempt to think of artistic intervention within broader contexts of social and political...

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Obsessed with 'ugly' women

When I read the news item in early November about the three men in Tottori Prefecture whose mysterious deaths were linked to a woman already under arrest for fraud, I associated them with the similarly mysterious deaths of...

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UC Berkeley Modifying Museum Building Project Due To 'Economic Uncertainty'

BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley’s plans for a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) are being modified due to lingering economic uncertainty, museum and university officials announced....

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ValuesDissonance: Real Life

Frances Fitzgerald's book Fire in the Lake was about how the difference between American and Vietnamese culture was the source of a lot of America's blatant failures in Vietnam. Anyone who has been in a class where Plato's...

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Deflation returns to Japan as rates stay low (AFP)

AFP - Japan's central bank left its super-low interest rates unchanged on Friday as the government declared for the first time in more than three years that Asia's biggest economy is in a phase of deflation.

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CMOS digital photo IC for colour sensing

A Hamamatsu Photonics product story Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Nov 20, 2009 Hamamatsu Photonics has introduced a 12-bit digital output colour sensor photo IC. The S9706 device consists of a matrix photodiode...

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AAPA 09: ANA urges Japan govt to create fairer, more equitable market

All Nippon Airways has urged the Japanese government to create a fairer market and relax some regulations to help the country's airline industry. Rival Japan Airlines (JAL) is seeking a bail out from the Japanese government...

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Master of extremes

As he gets into ‘Xtreme City,' Paul Schrader speaks about how cinema is becoming superficial. Photo Credit: Helena Lumme & Mika Manninen Master of extremes: Paul Schrader. Paul Schrader was in India as a member of the jury of...

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Game console makers at crossroads

By Cliff Edwards, BusinessWeek Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony need a new game plan. It and Microsoft, maker of the Xbox 360, are plotting to extend the life of their consoles well past the usual five years by offering new...

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