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...leopards and releasing them in other parks and forests, but a more obvious solution might be a fence. The park still doesn't have one, although $2 million was set aside for a 110-km wall in 2001. Says park ranger Vijay Gadkar: "When we don't even have basic amenities like streetlights or electricity for our own houses, fencing looks like a luxury." Right up until you meet a man-eater...
...plagued by bottlenecks, which limit the amount of coal sent to the voracious power plants. Half of the coal available from the western part of Inner Mongolia, for instance, is stuck at the source because of insufficient transportation networks. "Again, it comes down to a lack of planning on basic logistics," says Merrill Lynch's Jacobelli. "In some ways, you'd expect better from a centralized economy...
...were appointed largely by outsiders rather than elected by Iraqis themselves. But even though former members of the IGC play a dominant role in the new governing arrangement, there remains a crucial difference: the new Interim Government has a limited mandate - it is not empowered to enact or change basic laws, and it's primary function is to facilitate and organize elections to choose its successor within six months. And it is the promise of imminent elections to replace it, rather than the makeup of the Interim Government itself, that has earned the process the consent of the spiritual leadership...
...much inclined to finish it anymore than I’m anxious to start Peter Ackroyd’s biblical “biography” of London. All I really need is my small map with hundreds of streets listed on it, a sort of basic table of contents to the ur-text, the city itself, “the most complete compendium of the world,” as James called London...
...appliance business. When he took over in 1996, LG was making washing machines and refrigerators that seemed little more than cannon fodder for low-cost Chinese companies like Haier. Kim sliced costs by moving production of low-end products to China. He proved there is room for innovation in basic white goods, introducing, for example, appliances like air conditioners that can be controlled from the Internet. The result: sales reached $4.7 billion last year, more than twice the number when Kim took control...