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...being France, instead of a bearded old uncle who looks as if he should be advertising fried chicken, they have a seminaked woman." The book also imparts practical advice. If you order café au lait, beer or water at a restaurant, you're likely to get skinned; instead, demand a crème, a demi or a carafe de l'eau, as the French do. To wiggle out of a house purchase, ask your bank to deny you a mortgage. At dinner, don't commit the cheese-course gaffe of cutting the tips off Brie and Camembert wedges; instead...
...with a computer like this? If Apple's history is any guide, most computers sold over the next four years will have this clean, all-in-one display look - but very few of them will be iMacs. Apple is notorious for not having the supply to keep up with demand. Indeed, the release of this iMac was delayed by a shortage of the superfast G5 chips. At least iPod owners will have something to listen to while they wait...
...China is already suffering from widespread power blackouts because it can't produce enough electricity to meet booming demand. Faced with production-line shutdowns, many factories are generating their own power with diesel generators, further depleting China's overtaxed supply of petrochemicals. One foreign executive whose company has invested in a power plant in Guangdong province says oil prices are so steep that the venture is now barely turning a profit. It can't raise rates because tariffs are fixed by the government?and the government doesn't want to relax tariffs because that would contribute to inflation. "If prices...
When a population goes to polling booths to make a single demand?more democracy?it's a stirring event. When those people are more than 6 million citizens of the People's Republic of China, it's a day for the history books. That's what could happen Sunday when Hong Kong votes for a new Legislative Council (Legco), the closest thing it has to representative government. The candidates touring neighborhoods on bicycles and in sound trucks are giving the population a clear choice. One group's pitch is that Hong Kong has enough democracy for now and that...
Thieves sometimes try using artworks as collateral for other underworld deals. The masterminds of the 1986 robbery of Russborough House near Dublin, who snatched 18 canvases, tried in vain to trade them for Irish Republican Army members held in British jails. Others demand a ransom from the museum that owns the pictures. Ten years ago, thieves in Frankfurt, Germany, made off with two major canvases by J.M.W. Turner that were on loan from the Tate Gallery in London. The paintings, worth more than $80 million, were recovered in 2002 after the Tate paid more than $5 million to people having...