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...updating and maintaining the display. Don, who runs the truck-parts business founded by his grandfather, ordered another 1,000 flags to augment his original supply of 4,000. He, his wife and their two daughters straightened the flags after storms, replaced damaged flags and added new ones with grim regularity...
...generation later, we've returned to the grim neighborhood of $100 oil, having arrived down the same path. Demand is up more than 60% worldwide since the early 1980s, as China and India lead a wave of nations roaring into modernity. Iraq is a shambles, Iran a menace. Leading oil companies in the U.S. and Europe are gloomy about their ability to open up sufficient sources of oil to meet the demand. This cauldron of uncertainty is helping push the dollar down and energy prices...
...strikes over pension reform and job eliminations in the public sector are likely to make November a nightmarish month for the French. At least Sarkozy's return to the diplomatic Big Top will generate the kind of press attention capable of momentarily distracting the French public from the grim scene at home...
...netted nearly $6 million in another London sale. Riffing on Deng Xiaoping's maxim "To get rich is glorious," Yue's paintings capture China's exuberant love affair with consumerism. But even as he also satirizes his countrymen's headlong race to make money, the native of Daqing, a grim oil town in China's northeast, doesn't view his shiny new millionaire status with much irony. "What's wrong with laughing?" Yue demands with a serious face, digging into a Shanghai eatery's rendition of braised pork shoulder, a quivering delicacy synonymous with nouveau riche fulfillment. "China...
Cambodia hasn't excelled at much lately on the world stage, unless you're ranking countries for genocide and undetected landmines, of which it has an estimated 4-6 million. But the latter, grim though the connection may be, are the reason that the country is competing for a world title at the 2007 Standing Volleyball World Cup, taking place in its capital Phnom Penh...