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...TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY BBC AMERICA, FEB. 11 AND 12, 8 P.M. E.T. This wistful mini-series, based on a 1935 Patrick Hamilton novel, is less love triangle than unrequited love triangle. Plain, earnest pub worker Ella (Sally Hawkins) pines for naive, literary barman Bob (Bryan Dick), who in turn pines for Jenny (Zo Tapper), a streetwalker who pines for her former self, her lost opportunities and her ability to love. Streets is a keen-eyed, elegantly acted noir drama of heartbreak in alleys and darkened movie houses...
...Brotherhood” pipeline. Ever since the downfall of the USSR, former satellite Soviet republics have benefited from heavily subsidized gas prices. Wanting to update Ukraine’s access to “international standards,” Gazprom raised the price of gas from $50 per thousand cubic meters to $230. The more than 400-percent increase was cleverly couched in the Western language of free trade and open international markets...
READING THE FUTURE Sony hopes its 1/2-in.-thick Reader, with a high-contrast screen and enough memory to hold the text of 80 books, will change the way we read. Sony's online bookstore has a few thousand eBook titles available for download...
...BOOGER, ONE OF YOUR TRADEMARK WORDS. In fact, I mainly used it to describe the kind of humor I do?"Oh, I write booger jokes." If you actually were to look through my oeuvre, there's probably only once ... a day that I used it. Only a few thousand times did I go to that well...
...matter of pride for people like me to buy gold," she says. "Gold used to be a few hundred rupees for a sovereign [a measure of eight grams] in the time of our parents, and yet they couldn't dream of buying it. Now it's six thousand rupees for a sovereign, and still we have the money to buy gold...