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...plead for calm. The Fire Department responded to at least 2,000 calls in the past 24 hours from frightened residents who worried the alarms signaled high levels of the noxious, odorless gas. But forecasters attributed the phenomena to a "temperature inversion" that trapped several days' worth of smog in the area. Three months ago, Chicago became the first major city to require the devices. But today, fire officials criticized one of the largest manufacturers, First Alert Inc of suburban Aurora, for not being responsive to consumers' queries...
...became evidence at the murder trial) and of the subsequent "people power" rallies that swept his widow Cory to power. Burton had not been in China long when a similar street demonstration occurred -- with tragically different results -- at Tiananmen Square. But in quieter moments, Beijing's blanket of smog awakened in Burton a fascination with the contradictory imperatives of China's huge energy needs and its desire to meet them "without rendering its cities unfit for life...
...same time, Turbulent Indigo is weighted heavily with the conviction that the world has snapped its moorings. Moody and mordant, its 10 songs evoke smog-choked vistas, the scourge of aids and the bloodless wounds of love -- all presented as symptoms of a universal malaise. On Sex Kills, sirens echo ominously behind an insistent beat as Mitchell sings, "The ulcerated ozone/ These tumors of the skin/ This hostile sun beatin' down on/ This massive mess we're in! ... And sex sells everything/ And sex kills." The album title, Mitchell says, "refers to the turbulent blues of this warring, frenzied climate...
...when the purchase price is low. In the developing world, alternative forms of energy enjoy increasing cachet as governments wonder how to provide power for billions of people who lack electricity, knowing full / well that cities such as New Delhi, Beijing and Mexico City are choking under blankets of smog. Most important of all: renewables are beginning to earn respect in the marketplace. During the past decade, improvements in technology and manufacturing have sharply increased the cost-effectiveness and reliability of solar-power systems...
Boston-born, Theroux in 1985 became an "accidental resident" of the city he calls "a whole flat planet with a Venusian veil of smog" after having spent ten years in the Middle East. He bought a tiny condominium in unfashionable Long Beach, best known as the final berth of the retired liner Queen Mary and as a popular haven for lesbians. The many bars where the ladies hang out, Theroux writes, "could be spotted by the combination of women waiting in line to get in and mystified sailors (from the local naval base) watching warily from across the street...