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...Jihad checkpoint on the road outside Poso. "Do we have a letter of authorization?" he asks, keeping his finger on the trigger guard of his rifle. Although they muster only an antiquated shotgun and a homemade rifle among them, he hangs back from the villagers manning the makeshift wooden hut from which the black flag displaying Laskar's symbol of crossed scimitars droops in the afternoon heat...
...Despite its dirty, dangerous legacy, coal is what fuels China. While most other nations ended coal dependence years ago, China is still both the world's largest producer and consumer. Chairman Mao linked his country's future success to the cheap fuel, and from the hearth of the tiniest hut to the boiler rooms of big state-owned factories, coal is king. But decades of overuse have left sooty skies, polluted streams and eroded topsoil levels. Despite a pledge to cut down its contribution to global warming, China is the second-largest producer of greenhouse gases behind the U.S., with...
...blue neon sign shows where everyone is going: 3F, a bar and restaurant with a Southeast Asian theme. A couple of hundred people are already there, drawn by $3 cocktails and reggae and hip-hop tunes. It's so crowded that manager Jeff Short has abandoned his tiki-hut office to help behind the bar. The crowd is familiar, mostly female Japanese partyers and U.S. servicemen. Many of the girls dress alike--stiletto heels or sneakers, low-slung capris and halter tops, a spray of body glitter. (Short now says he doesn't recall a diminutive woman with white sneakers...
...pink and blue neon sign shows where everyone's going: 3F, a bar and restaurant with a Southeast Asian theme. A couple hundred people are already there, drawn by $3 cocktails and reggae and hip-hop tunes. It's so crowded that manager Jeff Short has abandoned his tiki-hut office to help behind the bar. The crowd is familiar, mostly female Japanese partyers and U.S. servicemen. Many of the girls dress alike?stiletto heels or sneakers, low-slung capris and halter tops, a spray of body glitter?so Short now says he doesn't recall a short, small-boned...
...high-tech hocus-pocus, already the target of some media watchdogs, could easily triple the ad dollars each program generates. With iPoint, the system Williams has been developing, digital set-top boxes could tailor virtual ads to individual viewers, based on their demographics and buying habits. Pizza Hut could go after Domino's customers, enticing them to click on an image to order a pie. "We can literally target individual TV sets," says Williams. He just has to hope that most people, unlike him, are still busy watching them...