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...provide as many as 100 liters of water per person a day—much more than the 2.5 liters needed. Groundwater wells contaminated with bacteria from raw sewage, pesticides, and iron could be also be purified using more advanced technology. But these measures won’t come cheap or easy. Environmental initiatives have never been popular with either the Indian government or its taxpaying citizens, and what millions have been spent seem to have accomplished relatively little. Even with the growing influx of cash from emigrants in the West, the cost and scale of the effort will...
...Traditional graffiti is in no danger of being outmoded anytime soon, however. While L.A.S.E.R. Tag technology is getting cheaper, it's not cheap. The complete setup costs $8,000 - that's $7,993 more than a can of spray paint from a typical U.S. hardware chain. Jay FC, one of the founders of the Hong Kong-based graffiti collective ST/ART, maintains that the cost is contrary to the spirit of street art. "It's supposed to just be something that anyone can pick up and do," he says...
...world, lost in their own preoccupations, benignly indifferent to the issues absorbing Juno, absorbing us. It is a smart reminder that the story any fiction relates is arbitrarily chosen and dependent for its effect on the ability of its tellers to enlist our interest - no special pleading, no emotional cheap shots permitted...
...Traditional graffiti is in no danger of being outmoded anytime soon, however. While L.A.S.E.R. Tag technology is getting cheaper, it's not cheap. The complete setup costs $8,000 - that's $7,993 more than a can of spray paint from a typical U.S. hardware chain. Jay FC, one of the founders of the Hong Kong-based graffiti collective ST/ART, maintains that the cost is contrary to the spirit of street art. "It's supposed to just be something that anyone can pick up and do," he says...
...gives the would-be investor dozens of possibilities, which range from the more predictable (Dongfang Electrical Machinery Co., a generator company) to the more exotic (Zhejiang GuYueLongShan Shaoxing Wine Co., a maker of traditional rice wine). Studying, says Rogers, will pay off: "If you do your homework, buy cheap and remain patient, you should be able to walk over and pick up that pile of cash in the corner that nobody else notices...