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...endured many blackouts in his office and home so far this year. Last month, he was about to send a time-sensitive e-mail to a client when the lights flickered off. Zhu was forced to lug his desktop computer to an Internet caf? in a neighboring district to get the message out in time. When he returned home that night, the power was off, rendering his new flat-screen TV and expensive air-conditioning unit inert. "My TV is just like a painting on the wall with no use," he says. "And I've started using a traditional...
...Already this month, Shanghai has obliged 500 factories in the city to move their production to off-peak hours. Yet it still requires buildings in the top commercial districts to keep their interior lights on all night to burnish Shanghai's image as an international financial capital. According to one building manager from the Xujiahui district, this requirement has led to doubled electricity consumption, not only from the lights themselves but from the air-conditioning needed during the day to cool the overheated building. All in all, Shanghai's much-vaunted nocturnal skyline?100 times brighter than the Australian capital...
...last time he saw her, they also inexplicably pointed out that she was able to go to a salon and a spa and buy about $100 worth of groceries that day. "It's a bit confusing what the prosecution is doing at this point," says former San Francisco district attorney Jim Hammer...
...white house may return to the Democrats some day. Even Congress may go back their way. But the federal courts will be Reagan's for years to come. He named 83 appeals-court judges and 292 district-court judges, slightly more than half the federal judiciary. That's more federal judges named than by any other President in history...
...police officer testified that Ramos had admitted to groping three to four women a week over the past five or six months. He was released on $1,000 cash bail on the conditions that he surrender his passport and stay away from the Harvard campus. Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Emily J. LaGrassa said that Ramos has failed to appear in court for recent hearings, probably because he remains in the custody of immigration officials...