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Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn. Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - American relations with China have improved in a way that few could have imagined when the Bush administration entered office and declared China a "strategic competitor." Now signs of serious cooperation are everywhere. China has worked with the United States on the global counterterrorism effort, will not be the spoiler on a new United Nations resolution on Iraq, has recently adopted stringent regulations on dual-use missile technology exports and other proliferation issues, and is discussing cooperation with the United States on North Korea. Meanwhile, the White House did not oppose Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic...