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...NATURAL GAS: Current Percentage of overall power production: 2.9% Percentage by 2010: 5% MAJOR PROJECTS: The 4,000-km West-East gas pipeline is expected to begin delivering 5,000 cubic meters of gas annually from next year from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang to Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta area. Anxious to clean up its sooty air in time to host the 2008 Olympics, Beijing has purchased some 1,800 buses that run on compressed natural...
...AUTO INNOVATIONS: By 2010, gasoline and diesel for cars, trucks and buses are expected to account for nearly half of the country's oil demand. China is beginning to respond. Last month, Beijing approved its first fuel-efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, which will begin to take effect in 2005 and will be more stringent than those in the U.S. Last month Toyota announced plans to manufacture the Prius, its hybrid gasoline-electric car, in China, where it hopes the clean vehicle will find a significant market. Beijing's government, meanwhile, is working to develop electric cars before...
...failure to secure Moscow's approval to begin construction on a pipeline from Russia has especially frustrated China's leaders. In its absence, Siberian oil is currently transported into China at great expense in trains and trucks. Beijing has for years lobbied its former Communist brother for a more direct link between oil fields in Russia and refineries in Daqing. The flow could supply as much as 15% of China's imports. During a visit to Moscow last month, Premier Wen Jiabao repeated China's entreaties but received no promises. In fact, Russia's only crude-oil supplier to China...
...among murderers and terrorists. In the chapters that follow, Naipaul sketches brilliant psychological portraits of the guerrillas?you understand that one man has joined the movement out of sexual rage, another because he can find no other job, and a third simply because he is bored?and you begin to feel sorry for them. Willie falls into the same trap as the reader. Then comes the day he is forced by his comrades to kill. He surrenders to the police and faces the prospect of a long jail term for his crime. Then, in one of the funniest touches...
...Road made Kerouac the spokesman for the Beat Generation, an icon of hip. But that's not the man you meet in Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Viking; 371 pages), a poignant selection of Kerouac's diaries edited by the historian Douglas Brinkley. The journals begin with Kerouac at 25, anguishing over his first novel, The Town and the City ("Why doesn't God appear to me to tell me I'm on the right track?"). They follow him through travels he made for On the Road, "hurt and haunted by hurt." The quintessential hipster turns...