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...road is only a flat place in the dark. But for a few nights in late summer 2003, it blazed in neon, smelled like smoked sausage, spun sugar and blue-ribbon hogs and rang with screams of people who had bought a ticket to be scared. They rode the Tilt-A-Whirl, browsed tents of prizewinning fruit preserves and lined up for the cute-baby contest, and if there is such a thing as a time machine on earth, it must be powered by the Ferris wheel at the Wirt County Fair in West Virginia. Back from the war, Jessica...
Menand and Simmons have both said in the past that they favor more prescriptions than the current proposal contains, but Menand said this week that it would not be clear whether the committee as a whole had a prescriptive tilt until the committee members had a chance to meet further...
...companies that fill a product gap or have a strategic connection with what we do, wherever that company might be," says Tata. Says Rothschild's Bhandarkar: "Other Indian groups look at things opportunistically. Tata is the only one with an international strategy." If the group has a geographical tilt, it is towards the developing world. And that's based on a business approach that has not changed since its foundation...
...Halfway through, when the story moves from Beijing to Berlin, the film careers off the tracks, and I wouldn't recommend it in toto. But I respect Lou Ye's audacity. And I'll be watching for Hao Lei, while hoping that other Chinese filmmakers, who routinely tilt against their government, can some day be as unfettered in their approach to affairs of the bedroom as to affairs of state...
...price of gasoline jumps to a new high, I, as well as countless other journalists, serve up a standard list of burning questions that we've kept warm on the hot plate since the last spike. Will the country finally get serious about conservation? Will Detroit go full-tilt producing hybrid cars? Will commuters stay home and work over the Web? And last, this, the big one: What will it take for oil-drunk Americans to finally learn their lesson and sober up? (With its talk about gas-tax holidays and $100 rebates, Congress seems to be answering, Free drinks...