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...make it seem like a second-tier competitor to United and American. "Delta would be severely wounded if it just sat back and did nothing," says Brian Harris, who follows airlines for the Salomon Smith Barney investment firm. That could prompt Delta to make a play for No. 4 Northwest or No. 5 Continental. Either deal would give the top three carriers control of nearly 85 out of every 100 U.S. airline seats...
...search for perfection, he'll travel hundreds of kilometers to find the ideal backdrop for each scene. Before the shoot in Heng-dian, the 300-strong crew crisscrossed mainland China from Dunhuang in the northwest of Gansu province to Jiuzhaigou in northern Sichuan. Last year, the company dropped everything to head for an ancient oak grove in Inner Mongolia to shoot a fight scene between Cheung and Zhang Ziyi at the height of the fall foliage. "I had a guy out there specifically to keep an eye on the leaves," says Zhang. "He made videotapes of their progress as they...
...with Peoples Energy for an assistance or installment plan. Some chemical manufacturers in the South have decided that it's more profitable to shut down temporarily and sell their contracted power back at a higher price than to use it themselves. (Which is exactly what aluminum makers in the Northwest are doing with their valuable electricity, much of which flows to California.) At a time when many fear the country is slipping into a recession, the natural-gas spike, according to Goldman Sachs, could cut economic growth...
...plants were down for planned, necessary winter maintenance and a storm seriously crippled the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on the central coast, knocking out a good portion of the state's dwindling supply of electricity. Only last-minute intervention by the state, which purchased emergency power from the Northwest, averted rolling blackouts...
Incredibly, parts of Somalia have avoided the years of chaos. The self-declared state of Somaliland in the northwest has its own government, police force and currency. Together with Puntland in the northeast, it offers its citizens stability and peace. Like the warlords, both ministates boycotted the Djibouti peace conference and challenge the new President's claim to represent the entire country. The government in Mogadishu says it will not force the northerners into the nation but will lure them back by building a federal system that allows each region a measure of autonomy--a kind of political balance they...