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PRICES. Except in the fuel and energy sectors as well as communications and transportation, almost all prices have been decontrolled. Rapid price increases lowered the standard of living for many Russians, and some 30 million, in a nation of 147.5 million, still live at or below the official subsistence level. At the same time, shops are full of food and household goods of immense variety. Lines, once the everyday nightmare for Soviet-era consumers, now form only when crowds try to get into the Reebok store and other specialty shops...
...this day, Galatis wanted to know about a routine refueling operation at the Millstone Unit 1 nuclear plant in Waterford, Connecticut. Every 18 months the reactor is shut down so the fuel rods that make up its core can be replaced; the old rods, radioactive and 250 degrees F hot, are moved into a 40-ft.-deep body of water called the spent-fuel pool, where they are placed in racks alongside thousands of other, older rods. Because the Federal Government has never created a storage site for high-level radioactive waste, fuel pools in nuclear plants across the country...
...force. The country has acquired the image but not the substance of democracy: it has a duly elected President and parliament but a completely dysfunctional government. The economy is still at ground zero: no jobs, no investment, no roads, virtually no electricity or telecommunications or running water, sporadic fuel. The people's adoration of Aristide has buffered their bitter disappointment, but they do not hold Preval in the same regard, and he will have to produce concrete proof of democracy's shiny promises...
...that sentiment is Dan Case, chairman of Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco venture-capital and investment-banking firm that helped manage the public offerings of Netscape and Pixar Animation last year. Says Case, who is the brother of America Online chairman Steve Case, another IPO millionaire: "IPOs are the fuel that entrepreneurs' job engines...
China has "real worries about Taipei breaking away permanently," Forbes notes correctly, "so I'd reiterate that we're against independence. I still want Taiwan in the U.N.," he adds, "but not now. China's succession struggle has everyone trying to out-tough each other. You don't fuel the fire at a time like this...