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...American Electric Power are also experimenting with carbon trading and clean fuels, they seem at the moment to be motivated more by the threat of boycotts by international environmental groups than by market economics. The interest in renewables on the part of such big oil companies as BP and Shell, on the other hand, "has gone beyond window dressing," says Vince, the British wind-power executive. "They can see the future of energy. For them, it's business." And that may be the best evidence that renewable energy's future has finally come...
...showstopping last track on Hot Shots II should be "Won," a cover of Harry Nilsson's 1968 composition "One" with a rap section thrown in. The juxtaposition of sixties pop with contemporary beats and rhymes is silly, self-consciously experimental, and ultimately beautiful -the Beta Band in a nut shell. If they and their fellow nod-inducers from across the Atlantic continue to churn out tunes of this caliber, we shall not want for lush, trippy ear candy in the '00s, and so we must be grateful for this miniature British invasion. Cohesive themes? Maxims to live...
Faced with a rising number of claims, insurers and home builders are looking for ways to minimize their liability. Farmers, which estimates that in Texas alone it will have to shell out $85 million in mold claims, has simply eliminated coverage in some 30 states. Says Janet Bachman, vice president of the American Insurance Association: "We are not the guarantors of public health." The California building industry tried and failed to push through a "home warranty" bill, under which homeowners could be required to enter binding arbitration instead of suing for defects...
When Fernandes, delegated by Gallaudet President I. King Jordan to try to handle this bizarre situation, arrived, stunned freshmen were wandering through Cogswell's lobby. "We were shell-shocked," says Tawny Holmes, freshman class president. "I went back to my room and just felt unsafe." Student-body president Chris Soukup hurried over to Fernandes to say the university's gay community was in a state of high alarm. Plunkett had just been named secretary of the campus Lambda Society. And Lambda members claimed that there had been a marked increase in death threats against gays. Some, Fernandes discovered, were hard...
...hugely popular in Japan and South Korea. But the Hong Kong press labels her as arrogant, greedy, cruel and uncooperative, precisely because she doesn't play by the same rules as everyone else. It has been painful but has also helped her develop a thick shell: she is obsessively private and beneath the various Shu Qi personas, one can discern the sad heart of a lonely, ultimately underloved, little girl...