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...northern part of Greece, where most of the country's power is generated. Within seconds the system came crashing down, as one substation after another automatically cut off to protect itself from damage. And so at 12:39 p.m., the electricity sputtered off in Athens. Thousands of people, including Transport Minister Michalis Liapis, were stranded in the city's glittering new metro; hundreds more were stuck in elevators for up to four hours. The blackout soon spread to the country's agrarian south and the Ionian Islands, the worst power outage in Greece in decades. Authorities did their best...
...principle, Helga Moser doesn't have anything against paying taxes. Like all Germans, the 49-year-old Bonn medical technician has long enjoyed a generous cradle-to-grave welfare system, including a free education and good health care, clean streets, cheap public transport and the reassuring knowledge that she'll get a guaranteed pension when she retires...
...will Beijing react? Probably slowly. Last week the state-owned news agency Xinhua reported only that "some Hong Kong residents" rallied, and that bus and minibus services were disrupted and which was said to have prompted "complaints from many members of the public." Contacted by TIME, Hong Kong's Transport Department said it hadn't received any; the operators of the three major bus companies said they received a single complaint?and one received "many commendations" from the public...
...airport and they say, "Cheers!" But use just a little trumped-up evidence to get them to help you invade a country and they go ballistic. They're a funny people. I tell my London friends that they are being cheated. I rage about the cost of public transport and inform them that in many parts of the world one does not need to buy a ?121-a-year TV license from the government in order to watch the Eurovision Song Contest and re-runs of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. When they look at me, I can hear...
...form of the Broadway musical comedy. John McGlinn's meticulous orchestrations, and showstopping turns by Judy Kaye, Jane Connell and Paige O'Hara, restored these wonderful old shows to life, not as quaint artifacts but as living examples of a musical theater that had never lost its ability to transport and beguile...