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...prepare him well for the tricky issues he would face in his job as vice director of economic development in Taizhou, one of the fastest-growing cities in one of China's fastest-growing provinces, Zhejiang. Instead, he found himself tackling a problem that seemed more appropriate for a Third World backwater than a Chinese boomtown: a chronic shortage of electricity. Last year, Taizhou's economy grew at an astounding 15%, but all the gleaming new factories pushed electrical consumption up by 21%. Local power stations are able to provide only about half of the juice demanded by the city...
...Bernières doesn't live up to it. The book's setting is promising enough. De Bernières' first four novels were all set in picturesque but war-torn corners of the world - Latin America or, for Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the Greek island of Cephallonia. And so Birds tells of the pretty, fictional Turkish coastal town of Telmessos during and after World War I. Greeks and Turks live harmoniously there until 1923, when aggressive expansionism and horrific fighting between the two nations culminates in a population exchange - Turks deported to Turkey, Greeks to Greece. The main plot...
...INDICATORS Over A Barrel Oil workers in Norway striking over pensions and job security reduced daily production in the world's third-largest oil exporter by 12%. The government ordered an end to the walkout...
...INDICATORS Financial Gamble Creating the world's largest casino firm, the Mandalay Resort Group accepted a $7.9 billion takeover bid from rival U.S. operator MGM Mirage. The combined companies would control one-third of casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, and half the hotel rooms...
...third dimension of competition." Partly, she says, it's about rediscovering her youth, when performing was based on intuition, instinct and feeling. Experience eats away at those forces, the confidence goes, bad thoughts fill the gap, and "you completely spin yourself out." Rebuilding that instinct, and making it congruent with your life, restores a sense of direction and awareness of self and others. When she reaches "that beautiful spot" in a race when intuition takes over, Kendall knows she's unbeatable. In the fleet at Athens, she'll be racing her longtime rival Italian Alessandra Sensini, the defending world...