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...time is it?" but "Are we there yet?" We suggest you stick around, for it has enough felicities to induce beguilement, right up to the sweetly supernatural ending. There are also several appealing performances, including one by a fish named Fatty, who obligingly swallows a cockroach dropped into his tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Movies Hit the Road | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...never been in this neck of the woods before. And if I could, I'd get in my car and drive back to a place I was familiar with, wherever that was. Only I might run out of gas and not be able to afford to refill the tank. That's what is called a crisis in America these days--expensive gasoline--which is one of the reasons I don't know where I am any- more, because I thought that a crisis meant the AIDS pandemic in Africa or the state of public education here, or the justice-system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anybody Recognize This Place? | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Biewener said that the regularly inspected tank was still under warranty and that CFS planned to investigate whether the tank was faulty...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tank at Harvard Research Site Leaks Oil | 5/23/2001 | See Source »

...neighborhood and seemingly headed higher, he figures it's payback for all those insufferable, phony-rich, new-economy yuppies in their view-blocking, death-dealing, friend-of-OPEC SUVs. "Gas will probably go to $3, and I applaud it," says the retired computer-company executive as he fills the tank of his light pickup truck at a station in Los Angeles. "I'd like to see all gas guzzlers off the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Struggle | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

Essentially that would transfer money from the government to oil companies, via consumers--not exactly a populist move. Bush could suffer if he fails to relate to the immediate needs of people like Walter Melendez, who pulls over to top off his tank whenever he sees his gas gauge drop below three-quarters of a tank. "I'm afraid it's going to be $4 next time," says Melendez, a computer technician in L.A., where radio waves are full of energy talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Struggle | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

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