Word: 1970s
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...researching his first Dr. Siri mystery, 2004's The Coroner's Lunch, Cotterill had little to go on. Historical accounts from the mid-1970s proved sketchy at best (and, as it happened, Laos had no actual chief coroner to consult). In writing about Laos' most politically tumultuous decade, Cotterill was thus left to fill in the blanks for himself. The latest Dr. Siri mystery, in particular, delves into the tragic history of the Hmong, an ethnic minority buffeted by the Vietnam War and later brutally oppressed in both Vietnam and Laos. "The problem with writing about Laos is information stops...
Amid the relentlessly changing cityscapes of Beijing and Shanghai, a new kind of music is being made. In terms of its discordance and abstraction, it compares to Dada, or the New York City and Berlin avant-garde movements of the 1970s. Yet something about it - a certain urgency and iconoclasm - could only have been spawned amid the wild experiment that is modern China itself. The country's punk and alternative-rock scenes have been gushed over by excited commentators, eager to cite them as evidence of China's changing mores. But they are staid in comparison to that created...
...taken shape without the trappings of democracy, American style, though that is important. The same phenomenon is also evident in countries that are recognizably democracies. I have written before in TIME about a village in Crete that I have been visiting for more than 30 years. In the mid-1970s, there was just one paved street, the priest was the most important local figure, and there was a crisis among the local families when a girl student returned from college in Athens one summer wearing cut-off jeans. Now the streets are all paved and village children sunbathe in thong...
...Saudi Arabia, whose well usually have spare capacity. "We saw that when prices went up to $145 a barrel OPEC was helpless," says Fadhil Chalabi, executive director of the Center for Global Energy Studies in London, who was an OPEC official during the last global oil crisis of the 1970s. Nor did they anticipate the sharp fall in demand which has helped send the price of their oil plunging. "This is not like the 1970s," says Chalabi. "OPEC has become a price-taker, not a price-maker." Still, if taking a couple of million barrels a day off the market...
...coal-fired power plant built by the German utility Steag, which alone provides about 5% of Turkey's electricity. When it started operations in 2003, the $1.5 billion plant was the biggest single foreign investment in the country. In nearby Isdemir, a giant steel mill built in the 1970s by Russian engineers using Soviet technology is undergoing massive renovation. Some 18,000 workers used to produce just over 2 million tons of steel here; now about 6,000 people produce almost three times as much - and the plant consumes less energy per ton of steel than many of its rivals...