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...thwarted by its regional nemesis, Japan, which has offered to pay for part of the multibillion-dollar project?so long as it terminates in the Russian port of Nakhodka, which is nearer Japan. Moscow seems inclined to take Japan's offer, and "China feels betrayed," says Bernard Cole, an expert at the National War College on China's oil needs...
...expected to continue to be the main contributor to growth in oil demand. The IEA report noted, however, that high prices will "galvanize energy-saving efforts and fuel switching away from oil in China and other non-OECD Asian economies," which will ease price pressures. Kang Wu, an expert at the Honolulu-based East-West Center on China's oil use, predicts China's annual growth rate in oil consumption will fall to 9% next year from 15% this year because of slowing economic growth...
...Gore won the support of more than 42% of the voters. Bush won 41% in blue California. If every state adopted 36's rules, those supporters' votes would count for something. "It could make California and New York worth a Republican effort," says James Gimpel, an Electoral College expert at the University of Maryland. "Wouldn't it be nice, if you were a Democrat in Texas, to actually see a Democratic presidential candidate visit?" The reform would also greatly reduce the chance of a candidate winning the popular vote but losing the electoral vote...
Video games have traditionally been the enemy of exercise. Yourself!Fitness(on Xbox now; on PC in November and PS2 in January) may help change that. The new conditioning game is a virtual personal trainer that trades the usual gurus of home-exercise videos for a digital workout expert named Maya. Yourself!Fitness functions like an interactive workout tape. You input personal data, including height, weight, push-up proficiency and fitness interests, and Maya recommends a fitness routine and schedule. Then the warm-up is over. Maya leads you through heart-pumping workouts drawn from disciplines like yoga and Pilates...
...Qaeda tactic, Israeli intelligence sources point out. And five days before the attacks, al-Jazeera aired a new tape of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Egyptian native Ayman al-Zawahiri, calling for Muslims to support the Palestinian uprising by attacking Israel and the U.S. Mohammed Salah, an Egyptian expert on Islamic groups, notes that the Sinai operation targeted a number of key interests of al-Qaeda's sworn enemies: the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Egypt's promotion of a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement and the security of Israel and Egypt, Washington's two key allies in the region...