Word: snaked
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They lost. In fact, the utilities rolled snake eyes time and time again. While the state's appetite for electricity was growing fast, its generating capacity was getting no bigger. Today California imports about 25% of its juice from neighbors in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest--a link that has frayed with the growing demand in those areas. Nor did anyone foresee a spike in rates for natural gas, which fires about half of California's generating plants and can account for more than half of the price of electricity. Then, as the rising demand for power met its restricted...
...then, in the last few weeks, it got interesting. At least, everyone was talking like it was interesting, and they kept asking me what I thought, and I could only fall back on saying things like "Oh, yeah, that Richard. He's a snake, all right" and trying to quickly change the conversation. I started reading the press coverage (including some very fine bits by our own Frank Pellegrini and Jim Poniewozik), which I suspect was more interesting than the actual show, and I began to know doubt. Should I have been watching all along? Was this in fact...
...whole hog: When I first heard about "Survivor," I thought there was going to be this whole "Lord of the Flies" action going on. And I wouldn't be opposed to some actual violence. I understand that Richard was, as I mentioned before, a "snake," but, really, what did he do that was so slimy? Scheme to get people to vote for him? Big deal. Now, if he was scheming to have certain cast members barbecued, then I'm suddenly very, very interested...
...Chinese year of the snake officially kicks off Jan. 24, and the reptiles seem restless with anticipation. Around the globe, apodes have been lurking in the news...
STUNNING SERPENTS The world's largest reptile zoo, in Tula, Russia, is attempting to improve its occupants' less-than-lovable image by holding a snake beauty contest...