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...makes her way through the bombed-out courtyard with the water pump in the middle - Grozny has no running water and no electricity - to the end of the block, then turns left toward the clinic, which stands in a patch of open ground. There she passes a fresh grave amid the garbage. It contains two bodies, burned beyond recognition, that locals discovered recently in the grounds of a nearby kindergarten. The residents buried them there and surmise they were killed during a military raid. No one was surprised by the discovery: as another resident of the courtyard, a pretty teenager...
...doesn't work. He doesn't do anything but smoke." (Bing just shrugs when I ask if it's true that he hasn't left in a year. "I'm too skinny to leave," he explains. "Everyone will know I'm doing yaba.") Big has a job as a pump jockey at a Star gas station. And he has a girlfriend, and he has his motorcycle, a Honda GSR 125. This weekend, like most weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight...
...European progress has certainly come at considerable expense to automobile owners - average gasoline pump prices in the countries that have registered the most progress is close to $5 a gallon, deliberately inflated by taxes in order to discourage consumption...
...BALL Weekend b-ballers, beware: Spalding is removing "underinflated ball" from your arsenal of sorry excuses for missed free throws. Its engineers have concocted Infusion ($45), a basketball with a built-in pump. Thanks to clever designing, it meets NBA standards for balance and rebounding. Spalding is talking with the pro league in hopes that Infusion will become the NBA's ball of choice. Shaquille, are you listening...
...time when U.S. consumers will be taking a hard look at their vacation budgets, OPEC is cutting oil production in anticipation of a worldwide demand slump. In a cruel twist of irony, the U.S. could find any attempted summer comeback choked off by high prices at the pump...