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...Texas, however, finished a smooth transition to deregulation under Bush the governor and remains a self-sustaining energy powerhouse, running a consistent power surplus in these times of supposed scarcity. And look what sprouted up in the land of oil fields: On April 3, Green Mountain began offering customers "100 percent clean wind power" from a windmill farm in the Texas hills...
Butch Razey, a cherry farmer in Washington State who commands the 419th Yakima County Militia, blames the slump on a lack of "Y2Ks or anything like that." The smooth turnover of the clocks on Jan. 1, 2000, was a blow to many conspiracy-minded groups, which had predicted global chaos. "After Y2K," says Potok, "there were a lot of angry letters in the extremist publications saying, 'You've made fools of us--we have a basement full of supplies and nothing to use them for.'" But if the militias are fading, some of their paranoid fervor lives on. Take John...
...political capital on promoting North-South reconciliation. President Kim's "Sunshine Policy" also had the backing of Washington's other key regional ally, Japan, and the Bush administration would not find much regional support for taking a harder line against Pyongyang. Armitage's remarks reveal an effort to smooth over any feathers ruffled by the President's initial comments...
When Panasonic's Tech 12 was unveiled two decades ago, it revolutionized the dance-club scene from Tokyo to Toronto. Deejays rejoiced at the smooth, almost buttery, pitch control, which allowed them to match beats and seamlessly shift from one song to another. In today's San Francisco, young dotcommers are deserting the city's once-booming live concert venues for dance clubs where they can groove to trance or house tracks, and the Tech 12 is helping a whole new generation of professional deejays spin to success...
...characters that I took from Shakespeare more or less stayed the same, but it’s a smooth transition from my own vaguely Elizabethan lines written in verse to the lines that are clearly Shakespeare. But the lead player required a completely new character, because he has no real persona in the play. It sort of evolved from that point on. On the commuter train to Middleboro, I realized I could frame the whole story around the first person who historically recorded Hamlet’s story, a man by the name of Saxo the Grammarian. It was basically...