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...which has embarked on a $42.6 billion expansion program, expects outages to continue until at least 2013. Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said the government was studying the energy-rationing experience of countries such as Brazil and Cuba, and is considering expanding solar power in state institutions. All traffic lights would also be converted so that they are able to take solar power...
...thing is for sure - customers want something to be done, and soon. "It's illogical to spend billions of dollars on the Olympics while at the same time not solve the air-traffic problems," says Martin Craigs, president of the trade association Aerospace Forum Asia. "What happens at the airports are the face of China to travelers." If Beijing wants to be a world-class aviation player, saving face should be its first priority...
...bitterest point of contention for Democrats will be the same question that divided them last summer: immunity for telecom companies that complied with Bush Administration requests for access to American phone and e-mail traffic without warrants after 9/11. After news of the Bush program broke, civil liberties groups brought cases against the companies, and since then the telecoms have in some cases refused to help the U.S. intelligence community further. Bush has said he will veto any bill that doesn't grant the telecoms immunity. The Democrats are split on the issue. Smart money bets the Democrats will cave...
...think we're suffering from a real bout of the blues or a mental crisis, we're likely to Google the symptoms or find a chat group in the hopes of performing a self-diagnosis. In fact, online searches for "depression" are among the most popular searches sending traffic to the 5,900 sites that we track in the Hitwise Health and Medical category - but the peak is not in January. According to our Internet behavior, our depression spikes reliably in mid-November every year, right in time for Thanksgiving, the launch of the holiday season...
...confirm this timing I took a look from a different perspective. If we're depressed, we're probably also seeking pharmacological help. By aggregating the traffic to the websites of the top antidepressants and charting visits to those sites over the last three years, a very interesting pattern emerges. The spike in traffic to the official websites for drugs like Lexapro, Prozac, Paxil and Cymbalta occurs in late October and early November, two weeks ahead of the height in searches on "depression." It's almost as if people anticipate their holiday depression and start shopping early for their drug...