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...legislatures, meanwhile, resolve to learn the other proper lesson from Enron, and let energy deregulation continue apace. It's not perfect, and it's not easy, but until energy is sold on the open market at market prices from a variety of suppliers, nobody except Big Oil and Big Coal (and Big Nuke) is going to have a chance...
...best deal. Shipping costs, which aren't always displayed, can quickly eat up any savings. And if a discount merchant has a poor rating or doesn't have the product in stock, that low price flashing onscreen will do you as much good Christmas morning as a lump of coal in your stocking...
...Although these best friends soon have to tote hods of excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically...
...bravely soldiers on, reporting five or six major news events every day. (Recent samples: "Many Goat Farms Appear," "Rare Squid," "Reception Given at Russian Consulate General.") Now comes a ray of hope?no, make that a beacon of an incontrovertibly glorious future! In August, Kim visited a coal-mining machinery factory at Ranam, in the country's north, and found that production was 12% above target. (Which isn't bad considering that lots of factories in North Korea are idle because there are no spare parts.) Last month, a full-fledged Ranam campaign erupted with Kim praising the workers' heroic...
...1990s: a “beautiful, starving Hutu refugee” models to satisfy the craze for “real” people; Charlotte’s saving grace is an Internet start-up which broadcasts, recounts and eventually rewrites the lives of representative Ordinary People (such as coal miners, fishermen, the homeless, addicts and farmers) and selected Extraordinary People (like herself) via the Internet; a terrorist is assimilated, one Big Mac at a time, into the American culture that he sought to infiltrate and destroy...