china imports

And you thought we were dependent on foreign oil. China's nearly double-digit growth has become the envy of the world's mature economies, but all that expansion requires fuel. As a result, China is now a net importer not only of oil, but of coal as well. And the trends in Chinese energy consumption don't appear to be turning around anytime soon.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and federal marshals have seized 64 drums of honey imported from China tainted with a potent and potentially lethal antibiotic. The FDA says it tested a honey sample and found it contained chloramphenicol, an antibiotic approved only for use in humans with...