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...government and Eskom say that the economy has grown too fast to cope with new energy demands, and South Africa must cut use by 10-15%. Power demand has increased 50% since apartheid ended in 1994, with almost 3.5 million homes having been added to the national grid from which much of the black population had been previously excluded. Little has been done to boost the electricity supply to keep pace with growing demand. Last December, President Thabo Mbeki acknowledged some of the blame for ignoring a 1998 Eskom report warning of an energy crisis in 10 years. "The president...
...than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages...
...light, the question of whether the great issues of the day have been discussed to the satisfaction of all seems beside the point. So far in the primary season, you'd have to say that the political leadership of the U.S. has not figured out how the nation will cope with the fundamental changes in its nature that three decades of immigration have brought, or how it will handle the economic challenge from rising powers in Asia, or how its enormous military strength can best be deployed in dangerous parts of the world. But perhaps in politics...
Terry's immediate concern is the pressure his son will face now that he has been released. "It's been an extraordinarily long time for him, and we are not sure how he's going to cope," he said. "But once he's out of the system he will be checked out and looked at and have medical, mental and physical checks." He paused, reflecting on the strain of the past few years. "Probably the mental checks will go on for quite a while," he said...
...this explosive growth has met the same problem that other suddenly successful industries have encountered in India: There has been no accompanying growth in infrastructure, leaving airports struggling to cope with long queues of harried passengers and severely compromising air safety. A series of so-called near-misses in New Delhi over the last two weeks has focused attention on a host of problems ranging from shortage of air traffic controllers and pilots to outdated technology and inadequately maintained equipment at the 125 airports around the country. Experts say it is a wonder disaster has not yet struck...