Intellectual curiosity is voiced at clamorous volumes.
Hylen and Abueg, along with some 40 other UW undergraduates, have been certified to teach middle and high school students about the pressing issues of international trade in the months leading up to the World Trade Organization's Seattle Ministerial Conference. At Leota, the ambassadors begin with a primer on international trade issues, and the impact that trade has on the state of Washington. The case concerns a recent dispute between the U.S. and Japan over the sale of American apples to Japanese markets. The essence of the issue is that the Japanese wish to protect their own apple crops from potential blight and pests migrating from U.S. orchards. The U.S. growers argue that they are doing all reasonable testing to ensure that no such problem will occur.