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he government planning to add up to 20 million phone lines yearly through this decade and hoping to attract $7 billion in overseas capital, foreign firms rush to expand in China.* Britishfunded Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd. and the US firm BellSouth Corporation will develop a fibreoptics project and mobile telecommunications system for Beijing.* US giant Motorola Inc. is expanding production of pagers, which number 6 million subscribers  more than five times the 1990 number.* Sweden's Ericsson, China's largest supplier of mobilephone equipment, targets China as its prime market. Cellularphone subscriptions have jumped to 700,000, four times the 1991 number.Egged on by handson and mindson activity stations, they might find out how a fish's shape determines its speed, or what archaeologists do.It's all part of an effort by science museums around the country to reach out more actively to inquirers of all ages  especially those who think, for example, that paleontology has something to do with buckets.According t
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 ts behind the same cart and starts pushing, says Steve Decker, director of emergency management for the Florida Department of Transportation. One reason that Florida has seen no loss of life, he adds, unlike in hurricane Andrew, is that county officials all saw that their common responsibility was to preserve lives.Certainly, one of the greatest challenges for local officials and private relief groups is knowing when to call for an evacuation, and how to avoid crying wolf.With a storm like this, you can never have 100 percent good information, says Renita Hosler, member of the rapidresponse team for the American Red Cross, at a shelter in Mobile, Ala., one of 500 the group has set up in the wake of Georges. But you can provide people with the best information available so they can make an informed decision.In Alabama, Gov. Fob James ordered mandatory evacuation Sept. 27 for Dauphin Island and other coastal towns.Some 3,000 residents sought safety in shelters in Mobile as of Sept. 28, even though the storm struck
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 d borrower, and other nations, economists say, should devote more of their national income to consumer spending.The US trade deficit does reflect continuing weakness abroad, especially in Europe and Japan, where consumers are not as confident, says Mr. Griswold.Of course, concerns about the size of US trade deficits have been around for two decades. Some economists say the imbalance could persist for some time, given America's wealth and the world's penchant to see the US as a haven for their dollars.We are so rich as a country, says Robert Lawrence, a Harvard University economist. We're borrowing, we're running down our assets, but we're very wealthy. He wouldn't be surprised, though, to see the gap shrink eventually.Other nations may at some point decide they don't want to invest so heavily in US dollardenominated assets, from Treasury bonds to businesses. That could weaken the exchange rate of the dollar, which in turn would help US exporters. And America may have to pay higher rates of interest to lure foreig
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 a, it meant welcome cash. But for both China and its new Islamic friends, there was an even bigger payoff: putting the US on the defensive.This summer, well before the US was calling for a coalition against terrorists, China had already created one. Few in the US took note. But in June, China invited six Central Asian countries to Shanghai to sign a security pact against terrorism, separatism, and extremism. China, Russia, and the Muslim countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are the current members Iran and Turkmenistan plan to join.Before Sept. 11, the Shanghai alliance was already planning an antiterrorism command post of its own, in Kyrgyzstan. It also intends to control oil supplies Kazakhstan is projected to become one of the world's topfive producers by 2010. All this has the effect of countering American power in the Middle East. And if the US fails to help Afghanistan rebuild after the military strikes, it could be China that fills the void.China's hand may be strengthened on its ea
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