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...minute scale of the boats passing by on the river. This, then, is the size of China's dreams for the future--bigger and more ambitious than outsiders can imagine. Even within China, the dam has its opponents. But no one leaves Sandouping--resounding with trucks in low gear, clanking machinery and the occasional detonation of explosives--without being overawed by the size of the biggest construction site on earth...
...desperately seeking clothes, lookno further than the Square. Between UrbanOutfitters, Structure and The Gap, you won't gonaked this summer (unless, of course, you're intothat). Frequent CitySports for athletic gear; theyoften offer spectacular sales on sneakers,t-shirts and rollerblades...
...there are reasons to believe that blackouts may be averted or, at worst, short-lived. Most of the larger utility companies have shifted their Y2K efforts into high gear and are speeding their repairs by sharing their findings through an online clearinghouse set up by the Electric Power Research Institute. The utilities are also under regulatory pressure. The Department of Energy has set a July 1 deadline for power companies to provide assurances that Year 2000 problems will be remedied in time...
...free children are overwhelmed by information even without the Internet. The glossy magazines and hundred-odd cable channels, the videotapes and computer CDs in most libraries and many homes--they need more information? It's as if the Administration were announcing that every child must have the fanciest scuba gear on the market--but these kids don't know how to swim, and fitting them out with scuba gear isn't just useless, it's irresponsible; they'll drown...
...than with the what-next. In McMurtry's Old West, cowboys ride off in clouds of eventful folklore. McCarthy's brooding buckaroos fade slowly, like denim, into a meticulously authenticated past. The novels are both stoic laments for the vanishing wrangler and lively repositories of regional landscape, foods, clothes, gear and idioms--enough of them in Spanish to suggest the coming of the bilingual novel...