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Mar. 26 2000 / Toronto Star / Michele Landsberg The beginning of a fine meal in a fancy restaurant, according to columnist Landsberg: gleam of fresh table linen, tinkle of ice cubes in glasses. You pluck one pink prawn from the shrimp cocktail appetizer and sink your teeth into its plump flesh.

How farming is reinventing itself The Economist / March 25, 2000 FAMILY farmers around the world are far from happy. But then farmers always complain. What is new is that this time they have good reason to.

BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters) - China is upbeat on clinching a deal with the European Union on China's entry to the World Trade Organisation, but signalled there were limits to what it would concede in EU talks this week, a state newspaper said on Monday.

Trade barriers of many kinds are making agriculture less efficient than it could be The Economist / March 25, 2000

Agence France Presse BEIJING, March 26 (AFP) - European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy will fly in to Beijing on Tuesday for a new round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks that may end China's 14-year quest to join the trade body. The EU is by far the largest remaining trading partner with which China has to work out a WTO deal.

by John Hall / Richmond Times-Dispatch The same White House that has now begun a campaign to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug has just negotiated a trade agreement that substantially increases cigarette and tobacco exports to China.

CongressDaily / Friday, March 25, 2000