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...then driven to Shi To National Park, where they attend a ceremony honoring efforts to rebuild after the September 1999 earthquake. Under a stained, blue-red-and-white canopy, the President listens as Nantou's deputy mayor explains how they had to bore through rocks to reopen the highway. A hundred locals sit on white plastic chairs, gawking at the President...
...northern edge of Georgia, where the Hiawassee River rushes out of the Smoky Mountains, natural beauty keeps close company with human poverty. A winding, hour-long drive from the nearest interstate highway, Towns County is one of Georgia's poorest and most isolated localities, where the average annual wage is $19,656, and 38% of schoolkids qualify for a subsidized lunch. Yet the county also boasts one of the best-wired middle schools...
...your friends across the road were Microsoft, you would try to fly under the radar too. A five-minute drive down Highway 520, Bill Gates' guys are beavering away on their own powerful new video-game console, the Xbox. Partly because Microsoft is the new kid on this particular block, its approach to publicity--it's dropping $500 million this year on Xbox advertising--is a little different. The staff here can't wait to thrust a green-and-black Xbox into your hands, show off dozens of cool games--and loudly taunt the game spooks up the road...
...recipe is ambitious, coalescing around three main ingredients. Supply (more power plants and refineries, less regulations), demand (tax breaks for conservation and energy efficiency), and the bridge between the two, transmission - specifically an interstate electrical grid and national pipeline network that Bush compared Thursday to the Eisenhower-spawned interstate highway system...
...Monday that "there's no reason to believe there's price gouging" - and there won't be any federal imposition of price caps in California or anywhere else. But other possibilities, like a temporary repeal of that 18.4 percent gas tax or even a temporary suspension of some highway tolls, got batted around at GOP lawmakers' weekly lunch with Cheney on Tuesday, and with vulnerable GOPers like Susan Collins of Maine fielding a lot of angry calls from the folks at home, we may see Bush and Cheney play a little short-term politics...