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Unlike the electricity squeeze, the tight market for gas has less to do with misguided government than with classic boom-and-bust economics. In the late '90s, as the price of gas mirrored oil's downward spiral, few banks or drillers were willing to risk the capital to hunt for a practically worthless commodity. Now that the price has rebounded, the West Texas oil patch is hopping, with more rigs and prospectors hunting for gas than since...
...they were soon releasing singles and, eventually, full-length albums. "We have an idea for a text and a general idea about the music," says Moorse, explaining their method, "and then the producers finish it." Steeped in the influence of both avant-garde '70s new-wave bands and slick '90s techno, they have created an irresistible sound, in which synthesizers, samples and drum machines collide with catchy rock hooks and English lyrics that are half sung and half spoken...
...able to turn it on at just about any hour of the day and watch a music video. For some of us beyond the tween demographic, who lost our symbiotic connection with the music scene around the time Kurt Cobain lost his life, the Food Network in the mid-'90s became our MTV. And its equivalent of the single was the recipe. Some of us cooked, some didn't--it didn't really matter. Seeing a cassoulet executed by a master was like hearing a perfect three-minute pop song, satisfying whether or not you could play the chords...
...Although they were pushed by historical and geopolitical factors to attempt a resolution of that conflict during the '90s, neither side is prepared - or able - to concede enough to make the other side do the same. And changing the political climate among both Israelis and Palestinians is way beyond the capability of even the world's only superpower. There's nothing a Bush administration can do right now to seal a peace deal that a Clinton administration hasn't already flogged to death...
Then again, he and Cheney are just enlarging on what everybody is already thinking--that even if we can avoid a real recession, meaning two consecutive quarters in which the economy shrinks, a slowdown in the rapid growth of the '90s is plainly in store. The dwindling NASDAQ says it all. If those sputtering dotcoms are the economic engines of the future, then the future's just not what it used...