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...Thai norms, dishing out less-than-filling portions at inflated prices. Not only are the entrees much pricier, rice is never included with your meal. For the Thai enthusiast seeking more bang for the buck, Smile Thai Café provides a nice alternative. The recently opened Thai eatery offers cheap food, fast service and an extensive menu that is sure to please even the pickiest palate (carnivorous and vegetarian alike). Its semi-secret location above the more popular Tanjore keeps crowds to a minimum—guests needn’t worry about divulging intimate secrets to others dining...
...three more decades of oil exploration. We now know there is little left, and any improvement in mining technology is going to be swamped by demand from the rest of the world. It is all too likely that an economy like America’s, which is structured around cheap energy—and, more specifically, cheap oil—will react with a major reduction in economic growth as the real cost of producing almost anything increases. The only escape would be a complete reengineering of the U.S. economy, which would take decades. Dire predictions? The Department of Transportation...
...Mossad brought down the World Trade Center. At the extreme, this world view is the mind-set of terrorism: that history is a hermetic system and the only way to get inside it is to smash it from without. In law-abiding society, it's an excuse for cheap cynicism, an excuse that CNN's decision makes that much harder to refute...
...more memorably, Wi-Max. It can comfortably cover a square mile, meaning it would take only 49 transmitters to blanket San Francisco. As Brilliant says with a grin, "Now it gets interesting." If you can cover entire cities with wireless Internet access, you suddenly have a very cheap alternative to cellular networks. But even Wi-Max won't kill 3G, which works much better when you're driving at high speed...
...protests that the other doesn't play fair because it relies on taxpayer subsidies. Embraer says it needs government help to counter Bombardier's easier access to First World financing and technology; Bombardier says it has to have aid to offset Embraer's low Third World labor costs and cheap currency. The firms have put their World Trade Organization complaints on hold and will sit down this month to try to work out a settlement...