I’ve known and worked with the last 5 U.S. Trade Ambassadors, starting with Clayton Yeutter in 1985. Progressing through Carla Hills, Mickey Kantor, Charlene Barshefsky and Bob Zoellick, they’ve all done an outstanding job in promoting U.S. interests while moving toward freer and more open trade. President Bush’s decision to nominate Ohio congressman Rob Portman as the next U.S. trade representative is, indeed, a pleasant surprise.
Sometimes the enemies of biotechnology utterly puzzle me. I’m so mystified by their motives that I’m forced to a simple conclusion: These people aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, or the brightest crayons in the box. No, these are the kind of people who need an hour to make minute rice.
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Around the world, the British are known as a tradition-bound people.
I’ve known and worked with the last 5 U.S. Trade Ambassadors, starting with Clayton Yeutter in 1985. Progressing through Carla Hills, Mickey Kantor, Charlene Barshefsky and Bob Zoellick, they’ve all done an outstanding job in promoting U.S. interests while moving toward freer and more open trade. President Bush’s decision to nominate Ohio congressman Rob Portman as the next U.S. trade representative is, indeed, a pleasant surprise. 
“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out,” said Oscar Wilde.
Remember how McDonald’s used to boast beneath the golden arches about how many billions of hamburgers it had sold?
Sometimes the enemies of biotechnology utterly puzzle me. I’m so mystified by their motives that I’m forced to a simple conclusion: These people aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, or the brightest crayons in the box. No, these are the kind of people who need an hour to make minute rice.
