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...when we signed onto this capitalist thing, we were briefed on the supply-and-demand part. We seem to accept massive fluctuations in the stock market, real estate and the popularity of John Travolta. But for some reason we think gas should always cost the same amount, plus 0.99 of a penny. Basically, I think the price changes depending on how much was drilled that day and how many former Miss U.S.A.s are suing the Sultan of Brunei or his brother for sexually enslaving them. There's a math formula for this...
...though everyone?Yan Peter Tamban, the desperate miners, processing unit workers like Michael, gold-struck villagers like Freddy Sigarlaki, the army and police?wants things to go on as they are. Or like Fecky, who lives next to a processing unit, and powerless government officials like Bonny, who simply accept that there's no way to stop the mining. Everyone except Daniel Limbong, that is. Unlike the others, he has seen what happened to scores of other mineworkers, what happened to Femmy's baby boy. And now, "we have a report of a second deformed baby born near the mine...
...this day I still to some degree deal with the stigma that comes from "taking pictures." I have come to accept the fact that I will fall behind in the race of applying for post-graduation jobs, internships or fellowships, that I will hear comments from pretentious science or humanities people who will say something to the effect of "I can't believe this was someone's thesis" and that my parents still don't know what "Visual and Environmental Studies" really is (I told them it was like environmental science--they liked that answer...
...media is reporting opinion polls suggesting that the Israeli public is more willing than Sharon to accept a settlement freeze as the price for a cease-fire...
...Mitchell Report. In his cease-fire speech today Sharon did his best to show that there was harmony between the U.S. and Israeli positions, at the same time as reassuring the right-wingers and settlers that he was not going to accept a settlement freeze...