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Even after rolling out 52 other international versions, MTV is working hard to fit in. The creative team is cooking up graphics announcing the call to prayer--MTV Indonesia already has them--and on Thursday evenings, ladies'-night music programming encourages female viewers who are not allowed to go out to instead organize parties at home with girlfriends. Over in the editing suite, Western music videos are cleaned up according to the "4-3-2-1 rule": close-ups of a bikini are O.K. for 1 sec. but not 2; 3 sec. in a moving shot works...
...harmony, that isn't likely to happen soon. "Most of China's population simply can't afford international prices," Kwan says. Chinese drivers, of course, agree. "They could have at least been more patient," says Huang Youfeng, waiting in line to fuel his sedan at a Beijing gas station Thursday. "Start the increase at 0.2 renminbi [2.5 cents] per liter - it would have been more acceptable." The irony is that Chinese demand has driven much of the nearly fourfold increase in oil prices since 2000. The country is now the world's second largest consumer of oil products, and consumption...
...addition to the price increase, which went into effect Thursday, the government also said it will require the country's biggest refiner, state-owned China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., known as Sinopec, to increase output and imports of oil products. Sinopec said Wednesday it will run its refineries at full capacity in November, bearing "heavy losses" to guarantee market supply. It will also halt all exports of gasoline and diesel for the time being. As in the past, however, any losses will likely be covered by billions of dollars in government subsidies...
...attack on a Pakistani Air Force bus that killed eight military personnel and wounded dozens more south of Islamabad, Thursday, brought this week's death toll in suicide bombings to 15. But the spate of increasingly violent attacks on targets associated with his regime is only one of the many threats confronting the embattled President Pervez Musharraf. Challenges to his authority from the courtrooms of the capital to the rebellious mountains of the northwest have once again raised the specter of a declaration of martial law in Pakistan...
...Glad You Came? The Institute of Contemporary Art has free admissions from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday nights. Check out shows such as “Bourgeois in Boston” and “Momentum 8: Dave McKenzie,” and watch the sunset over the harbor. 100 Northern Ave, Boston. 2) Always wanted to go salsa dancing but too afraid to try? The Havana Club gives you lessons first, then lets you test your skills at the dance party right after. 8:30-9:30 p.m. Salsa 101 class; 9:30 p.m. Beginner/Intermediate Salsa class...