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Nov. 8th, 2002 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
microbieHas anyone else heard about the projectile that was shot down using a laser? Michael sent me a Reuters article about it, but I haven't heard a peep from any other news outlets. This is quite a technological achievement, I must admit, though it's far from an intercontinental missile defense system.
Jingoism in the name of profit. Vietnam exports one-third of its catfish to the U.S., alarming Southern catfish farmers. Tactics have included getting Congress to pass a law stating that only catfish from the U.S. can be labeled "catfish," claiming that Vietnamese catfish is contaminated with Agent Orange and "unclean" from swimming in Third-World rivers, and that foreign catfish is "un-American." Almost as un-American as barring free trade?
Jingoism in the name of profit. Vietnam exports one-third of its catfish to the U.S., alarming Southern catfish farmers. Tactics have included getting Congress to pass a law stating that only catfish from the U.S. can be labeled "catfish," claiming that Vietnamese catfish is contaminated with Agent Orange and "unclean" from swimming in Third-World rivers, and that foreign catfish is "un-American." Almost as un-American as barring free trade?
