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...Singh at India's Helm Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is an able statesman who leads a simple life [Sept. 27]. As one of the most capable Prime Ministers India has had in a long time, Singh will get things done in a cool and calm manner. He is not one to lose his temper. I am hopeful that during his term in office he will make India a country to be reckoned with. M. Shakir Khaleel Bangalore, India...
...discover a major new oil field tomorrow, it takes years to bring production online. So for the next several years at least, China's import requirements will continue to put upward pressure on crude prices. In a report issued last week, the IEA warned that high oil prices will cool global economic growth next year?and China is expected to continue to be the main contributor to growth in oil demand. The IEA report noted, however, that high prices will "galvanize energy-saving efforts and fuel switching away from oil in China and other non-OECD Asian economies," which will...
...Internet from Gateway for $3,000 and has got an instant popularity boost. "Everybody who walks into the house comments on the TV," he boasts. "They look at it like the piece of wall-mounted art that it's supposed to be. It really does look cool." Wheeler eventually wants to cover his living-room walls with three huge flat TVs. "It'll be like living in a sports bar," he says...
...sometimes menacing white world. It began, for instance, among slaves who developed coded languages to communicate secret meanings to one another under the very eyes of the slaveholders--which for one thing is how bad came to mean good in African-American slang. And though hip is often cool and evasive, it can also be angry and hot. In the late 1940s and the '50s, anger came back into hip through the improvisational bebop style of jazz developed by saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. In response to the domestication of jazz by the swing bands of the 1930s...
Should that be surprising? Hip was never just the present-day array of marketable postures, most announcing an ironclad cool. But what is it exactly? For some interesting answers, turn to John Leland's Hip: The History (Ecco; 405 pages), a book that examines how an underground language of American slaves became the lingua francafor cooler-than-thou folk everywhere, in the process evolving from hard-earned mentality to merest merchandise option...