| News Minute: Republicans campaign...Iraq operation...2 troops killed
POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) - Republican John McCain says he is skipping President Bush's State of the Union address tomorrow night to campaign in Florida, which holds its primary in two days. Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton plan to attend, although the Democratic National Committee has stripped Florida of its delegates from the national convention. MACON, Ga. (AP) - Democratic party officials say Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama for president. The endorsement will be announced tomorrow in Washington. Kennedy's endorsement was highly sought by all the Democratic candidates in part because of his broad national fundraising and political network. BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's Defense Ministry says operations against al-Qaida in Mosul will begin soon.
'Made in China' but with warning
Wang said the move was a way to start to enforce intellectual property rights and show that better quality comes with real goods.
But he warned that if anyone tried to sell fake Silkstreet goods, they will be dealt with "according to the law". Counterfeit goods remain widespread in China, despite occasional crackdowns, because laws against the practice are rarely enforced.
The market has a program to crack down on fake goods, Wang said, such as giving a 20 percent discount on rent for stalls that sell real goods.
But many of the shops in the Silkstreet market still sell fake good.
"The quality and look is good," shopkeeper Xu Meiling said of Silkstreet shirts, comparing them favorably to fake foreign-brand shirts hanging in dozens of stalls.
Not Win-Win-Win
Customers may be failing to appreciate the new cars' place in the broad sweep of the "biggest single aesthetic undertaking in human history!" Instead, they're just looking at the cars. Philistines! ... 7:27 P.M. Now they tell us: The Justice Department went to court last week to try to force Google, by far the world's largest Internet search engine, to turn over an entire week's worth of searches. ... [snip] ... But the case itself, according to people involved in it and scholars who are following it, has almost nothing to do with privacy. Gee, it seems like only yesterday the NYT was fronting a story highlighting the terror of computer users who, because of the Justice Department's actions, were now afraid to type in ordinary, curious search requests like "rent boy" for fear their privacy had disappeared.
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