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...strong supporting roles in The Green Mile, Matchstick Man, Snow Angels and the Brad Pitt Jesse James movie, and starring as Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Rockwell has honed his specialty of runty ranters. His standard character is the kind of highly caffeinated punk who, in any group, would be voted most likely to screw up the mission. He brings some of that chip-on-shoulder orneriness to Moon - at times you wonder how Sam aced the screening process and got the job - and to the second Sam, a Top Gun-type who fulminates while the first...
...Electric cars will require more powerful recharging stations than the standard wall outlets used to juice up bikes. But when four-wheeled technology becomes road-ready, it will find a willing customer base in China. "The Chinese have a hundred million people on electric bikes," says Jamerson. "That means a hundred million potential customers" for electric cars. When he worked at GM, which filed for bankruptcy on June 1, Jamerson said he once suggested the company give away an electric bike with every new car, just to get customers used to the idea of a means of transportation you plug...
...also possible that administrative overzealousness might be a factor, given similar past decisions by MIIT. Ma of IDC says the episode is an "eerie reminder" of the move in late 2003 by the government to require manufacturers of wireless networking products to adopt a Chinese standard called WAPI for encryption of wi-fi wireless communications, even though there was a widely adopted international standard. In that case, howls of protest from manufacturers, not to mention intervention by then Secretary of State Colin Powell, forced Beijing to back down...
...Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso. Like Bongo, all have denied any wrongdoing. But Bongo was one of the greediest and, coming to power at 31 in 1967, just seven years after Gabon's independence, one of the first. As such, he set and maintained the catastrophically low standard for African leadership that would ensure that a continent bursting with natural resources would remain the poorest and most war-ravaged place on earth for the ensuing four decades...
...played host to five men’s heavyweight events (a reduction from previous years) as well as a men’s and women’s lightweight competition. Also making its first appearance in this year’s iteration of the regatta was a new selection standard, which required boats to now qualify for entry while prohibiting club teams from participating.Despite the change, the field remained loaded with contenders. "The strongest field across the board I've seen, at least in the years we've been going to the IRAs," Harvard coach Harry Parker called it.Pacific...