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...forget about the pernicious influence of Madison Avenue. In this hypermodern arena of hard-core capitalism, Big Business is forced to squeeze its wares into the same one-line classified ad as the rest of us. The site's internal search engine is the kind of leveling tool Karl Marx never conceived of. Ask for an automobile and eBay is just as likely to turn up your neighbors' five-year-old Pontiac as GM's latest top-of-the-range four-wheeler. The effect is as pleasing as browsing in a bookstore where new and used titles mingle democratically...
...present its official report for 2000 to parliament by the end of April. Its recommendations?and the government's response?are a litmus test for human rights in Malaysia, activists say. Anuar is cautious when addressing the charge by opposition politicians that police are often a willing tool to further the government's political ends. "I don't know about that. We'll tackle the simpler issues first," he says. "When we have found out where we can act, then we'll tackle the more difficult ones." Even for someone claiming to be "very optimistic" about the role the commission...
...production again, energy funds have been running close to small value this year in returns, though they dipped a couple of points during last week's sell-off. These funds track commodity prices--not, like stocks, the S&P 500--which makes them a useful long-term diversification tool. Energy demand dips in the spring or when the GDP growth rate slows, but analysts say they will stay overweighted in these funds in the near future...
...idea of shelflessness may be a useful critical tool. For example, how do you rate "Gladiator" for shelflessness? A little higher than is comfortable for a Best Picture, I would say. Russell Crowe is one of those actors who is interesting to watch, but, gaudy decapitations aside, "Gladiator" advances unapologetically from cliché to cliché (the "Spartacus"-meets-"Sleepy Hollow" note, the British Romans, the decadent incestuous homoerotic touches dragged in from "Spartacus," "Quo Vadis" and elsewhere) and on the video shelf, is never going to be more than routine escapist entertainment defaulted to when you can't find...
...Kyoto Protocol is the only tool on the table to control the greenhouse gases that are driving global warming. But that treaty has been rejected by the Bush administration as unfair because, initially, it does not require developing countries to cut their emissions. However, many observers believe Bush opposes it because the U.S. is by far the greatest greenhouse-gas polluter, and controlling fossil fuel emissions might injure the economy...