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...highway leading to Yingxiu, a small town near the epicenter of China's May 12 earthquake, is rent by fissures big enough to swallow a child and is choked with smashed trucks and enormous rocks. Near the town's outskirts, just past a compact car that has been crushed by a boulder, a landslide cuts off the road entirely. A mother, who walked into the mountains beyond to bring out her 12-year-old son, says he has been scarred by what he has seen. The landscape they are leaving behind is hellish, she says: rows of wrecked houses, collapsed...
...about the big paychecks, but beyond the project a serious backlash is growing against the economic and environmental pressures that come with maxing out oil production. A shortage of housing in Fort McMurray has pushed the price of an average home to more than $600,000. Two-bedroom apartments rent for about $3,500 a month. "The tar sands are being developed in an unsustainable fashion from virtually every point of view," says Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party...
...where's video dial tone? I'd love to subscribe to a service that gives me any TV show or movie I want for a flat fee. But most of the services that tackle this problem want us to either "rent" downloadable video--typically for a day or two--or buy the bits outright. Products range from the nifty Apple TV set-top box--which has the added virtue of connecting to YouTube--to Vudu, whose sleek device links your TV to a library of 6,000 films and TV shows. Both products are promising and let you rent...
...highway leading to Yingxiu, a small town near the epicenter of China's May 12 earthquake, is rent by fissures big enough to swallow a child and is choked with smashed trucks and enormous rocks. Near the town's outskirts, just past a car that has been crushed by a boulder, a landslide cuts off the road entirely. A mother who walked into the mountains beyond to bring out her 12-year-old son says he's been scarred by what he's seen. The landscape they are leaving behind is hellish, she says--putrefying bodies, collapsed schools, buried roads...
...He’s got a much better location than I have and my guess is he pays much better rent,” Herrell said of Petryk. “That’s not a good formula in a world of capitalism...