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...satisfied with merely importing Tibetan culture and commerce, Chinese are increasingly making the tourist trek to Tibet itself. The region received roughly zero non-Tibetan visitors at the start of the last century, but last year 420,000 Chinese tourists inhaled its thin air, up almost 50% from two years earlier. That means opportunity to people like Ouyang Xu, a cocky 33-year-old entrepreneur who opened the Himalaya Travel Agency last year, and took 700 Chinese to Tibet in six months. They multiply the impact of the many Chinese who have moved to Tibet in the past decade...
That doesn't mean they are going to duplicate California's calamity. But the promised benefits of deregulation have for the most part remained just that. New York City is facing an electricity shortage this summer. In the Northwest, Oregon and Washington, which typically import power from California in the winter, have recently been sending juice south and find themselves exposed to a cruel market driven up by their neighbor's woes. "Retail utilities may lack the financial resources to purchase needed supplies or build the generation we all agree is necessary," Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber wrote in a letter...
...Despite local community opposition, the New York power authority is racing to install 10 individual generators around the city, each capable of producing 44 megawatts. The system is tailor-made for New York, which is plagued by bottlenecks on its aging transmission lines that often make it hard to import power...
...imported fewer than 500 cows from the British Isles in the 1980s, of which just 32 entered the food chain. By the end of the decade, the U.S. had prohibited the import of live cows and sheep from Britain, along with many animal products and rendered animal proteins...
...writers decided to turn them out themselves. These admirers might get the props right--say, a mobile home with linoleum on the floor and an opened bottle of gin on the kitchen table--but not the magic that Carver could work with such material, not the sense of enormous import lurking in the pauses of desultory conversations...