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...Muslims. Fahd came to power when Saudi Arabia was flush with oil revenues, and he allocated many millions of dollars to upgrading the Holy sites in Saudi Arabia to make them more accessible to pilgrims. Using oil revenues, the capacity of the great mosque at Medina was expanded almost tenfold, while the capacity of the mosque at Mecca was doubled - it can now hold about 2 million pilgrims, compared with a capacity of 1 million before...
...state's largely self-inflicted energy wounds are rich in irony. A deregulation plan that was supposed to cut electric rates has instead more than tripled what some California consumers pay and has proved powerless to slow a tenfold increase in the state's wholesale prices. And instead of pulling regulators out of the utility business, the plan has plunged Sacramento and Washington ever more deeply into it. Last week Davis, who has called the deregulation plan a "colossal and dangerous failure" while also railing against "out-of-state profiteers," signed an emergency order that empowers the state's water...
...Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won four Oscars in 2001 and broke the box-office mold by becoming the most successful foreign film to hit the U.S. That victory remains both a blessing and a curse for the Chinese film industry: it raised awareness of Asian films tenfold in the West, but has compelled the region's filmmakers to try to duplicate Lee's magic formula...
...also going to make electricity cheaper, allowing consumers to shop around for the best deal from a range of suppliers. But all those new suppliers never showed up, and for the utilities, there's not a good deal to be found. The wholesale price that they pay has jumped tenfold. Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison, which aren't allowed to pass on the full market rate to customers until mid-2002, have had their stocks hammered and credit ratings slashed. Now they are $12 billion in the hole and on the verge of bankruptcy; late last week...
...patients with advanced AIDS who are no longer responding to most of the currently available drugs, are promising. After almost a year of taking T-20 in combination with other antivirals, 56% of the patients showed sharp declines in the amount of HIV in their blood--at least tenfold below their starting levels and in some cases to levels undetectable by current tests. The only disadvantage to T-20 therapy at the moment is that it's an injection that needs to be given twice a day. But Trimeris is working on making the molecule easier to take, possibly...