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A WSJ front-page feature reports on a virtually unnoticed obstacle to the flourishing of free trade under NAFTA: There aren't enough bridges, rails and docks to handle all the additional movement of goods the treaty sanctions.
A Pecksniffian TV evangelist might conceivably-- heaven forbid--revile sin and sinners while wallowing in the conduct that he rails against.
However, the impact was minimal because of its remoteness: An Amtrak train was knocked off its rails, and about 250,000 homes lost power, though almost all was restored by the afternoon, the LAT reports.
the locomotive, a diesel-burning Class 2900 Santa Fe 4-8-4 that had been constructed in 1943 but had survived the decades most admirably and now gleamed like a Secret Service agent's lapel pin, was gaining speed swiftly, its one hundred and five tons departing another whistle-stop in another anonymous town whose inhabitants clustered where the rails seemed to converge, their fluttering hands and smiling faces congealed into a tuberous mirage that already was beginning to deliquesce, its bipedal spores gamboling away from the station where, only moments before, the candidates had stood to receive the traditional accolade from the traditional close-packed crowd.
There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable.