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...coal are facing new challengers even among hydrocarbons. As recently as 10 years ago, natural gas was considered a dead-end industry because analysts grossly underestimated global reserves. Now it is rapidly becoming a favorite fuel of electric utilities. More than 30% cheaper than oil, it burns efficiently, and it produces fewer pollutants and a third less carbon dioxide than oil. World production has risen 30% since the mid-1980s. Because of its advantages over dirtier hydrocarbons, natural gas may be a bridge between oil and coal and the solar...
Gaines and Churcher interviewed tirelessly to portray Klein's Bronx childhood, spent under the thumb of a domineering mother. Like many designers, little Calvin began sewing as a tyke and was impatient with school. After a couple of dead-end apprenticeships, his future dawned with the opening of an elevator door. In 1968 he had a tiny garment-district office when a Bonwit Teller executive on his way to another floor glimpsed some coats. He ordered his assistant out of the elevator to check them out. Soon the young designer was the star of the store's young line...
...here it is: FM's spring break issue. Page after page of juicy anecdotes detailing both the harrowing and the idyllic moments that filled each and every one of our days away form dining-hall food, crappy sections and dead-end crushes. We went to Ecuador. We went to Washington. (Well, actually I went to Washington and did not get to go the Ecuador, and needless to say, was quite upset about all that...
...ahead in any way. In Westminster, the "Little Saigon" in Southern California's Orange County, 140,000 Vietnamese refugees are crammed into 5 sq. mi. often under deeply impoverished circumstances. Without the resources and planning that other Asian families have used in resettling, many of them work at dead-end jobs or, as a last resort, subsist on government handouts, which profoundly shames them. Says Nghia Tran, 30, executive director of the Vietnamese Community of Orange County: "As refugees, this population represents a special set of needs, and sometimes they are not met. This is where we get our delinquency...
...this notion is. So is this glossy, well-acted movie about a very privileged victim. Because Bob has no problems with money, work, a restless wife or unruly kids, he can spend his time in crash-course therapy, discovering that, yes, his parents really did love him. Moviegoers in dead-end jobs and edgy relationships will wish they could live half as glamorously as Bob Jones dies. This is Final Exit, Hollywood-style: death warmed over...