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...streets, hearing screams from those buried alive. Shuffling through ankle-high ash as a result of the firestorms that destroyed more of the city than the earthquake, the guys sleep on the street, dig latrines for food and even open a hot dog stand for construction workers, but are undersold by a stand next door that horded free groceries...
Even before the clock struck midnight, you knew it wasn't happening. Prices had been slashed for undersold events--even ones that involved Sting. The Champagne shortage, despite an ever increasing number of rap video shoots, never materialized. So when the global odometer first flipped in New Zealand--a place experts believed was so dependent on technology it would surely implode if its computers believed the year was 1900--it was only a little shocking that absolutely nothing happened anywhere on or above the globe. Airplanes stayed in the air. Y2K bunker dwellers began to pack up canned food...
...happy inspiration for Greenpeace to take its bus not just to port cities but inland too. In Howard County, Mo., the ocean activists meet Roger Allison and Rhonda Perry, family hog farmers. They complain that Missouri and its small farms are being lied to, undersold and fouled with reeking air and polluted water by huge, corporate-owned, factory-style hog operations. Dorry responds with the parallel case against factory fishing. "It's the same story here!" she says. "You guys are trying to make a living. The factories are making a killing...
...manufacturing jobs going to China [BUSINESS, July 22]. Because of Chinese human-rights violations, I do not buy products made in China. This has become increasingly difficult, however, as the American market is flooded with Chinese goods. This year Louisiana fishermen were severely hurt when the Chinese undersold Louisiana-harvested crawfish 40% to 50% per lb. At the supermarket, people wondered aloud how the Chinese could possibly make a profit. I fear they are using political prisoners and virtual slave labor. MARTA MCCARRON Baton Rouge, Louisiana
...those occasions when he stops scaling Olympus and makes a popular comedy-drama such as Annie Hall or Hannah and Her Sisters, he feels a little cheap, like the Whore of Mensa (the main character and title of one of his funniest short stories) -- as if he has undersold his gifts to win easy acclaim...