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...Calais center. The Calais mayor's spokesman Bernard Barron counters that his city has no choice. "Calais has been abandoned by Europe, by France, by Britain," he says. "We are alone." The same cannot be said of Khodadadi, one of just hundreds camped along the coast, eyeing their dream destination across the Channel...
...Dream Lives If são tomé really has the oil it hopes for, can the island get it right where so many others have failed? Maybe. In 2003, a group of former mercenaries known as the Buffaloes seized power for a week to protest over the secrecy and corruption surrounding concessions granted to Nigeria. The Buffaloes are now the Christian Democratic Front, and the support they lay claim to underlines public wariness that São Tomé might "do a Gabon," as the party's leader Alecio Costa puts...
...seismologists are convinced the oil is there - up to 11 billion barrels, according to Exxon Mobil's survey in 2000. But as yet, it's not clear how accessible those reserves might be. That gives São Tomé's people time to think and dream - but to do so with a caution that not all Africans have shown when the drillers come to town. In Club Tropicana, Salvaterra ponders his country's future. "I really hope we do have oil," he says. "But maybe just a little...
...database of more than 600,000 major-label songs--all of which have been categorized by musical attributes such as voice, tonality and chromatic harmony--then serves up similar-sounding tracks. That can get a little monotonous, so Slacker, which launched in March, uses professional DJs to dream up constantly changing playlists that give you more variety while still adhering to your basic tastes. If you ask for Gwen Stefani, for example, you'll also get the Cars, Talking Heads and Björk in addition to more obvious matches such as Blondie and Madonna. And Last.fm, which is based...
Zoellick's dream is about to come true - and then some. He is set to be named this morning as the new president of the World Bank, an institution that wrestles with poverty and corruption overseas in its mission to help the underdeveloped world. As president, Zoellick will also have to contend with unending international politics about how to spend its multibillion-dollar budget...