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...generate enough electricity when the cold snap hit and power demand soared - and transport disruptions made it difficult or impossible to replenish supplies. Official media say plants that produce 10% of China's power are now reduced to less than three days of coal reserves. To cope with the problem, authorities have banned exports of coal mined in China and diverted shipments bound for factories to power plants. A more lasting solution - allowing utilities to pass on at least part of the price rises to consumers in order to reduce demand - simply isn't an option now because...
...atrocities, from forced recruitment to extrajudicial killings. Attaining justice for the victims (and compensation for the nearly 200,000 displaced) ought to be as important to the country's push toward democracy as elections. "But human rights don't seem to be anyone's priorities here," she laments. "The problem is a failure of political leadership...
Town planners, civil architects and traffic engineers from the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Australia increasingly see shared space as a starting point for solving a wider problem: that towns and cities they have painstakingly designed to function smoothly too often turn out to be ugly, alienating and dangerous...
...just because 100 miles (160 km) has been used as an arbitrary procurement distance for p.r. purposes doesn't mean that all people who try to eat locally walk around the supermarket with a GPS unit. I still enjoy bananas and coffee, and I have no problem drinking beer that comes from - gasp! - California. But for me and many others, the point of eating locally is to become more familiar with our food. It's nice to hear a farmer say that my rib-eye steak came from a cow that ate local pasture grass rather than a corn...
...course, if a candidate can actually speak the language, then there's no problem. Senator Chris Dodd is a fluent Spanish speaker from his years in the Peace Corps, and Senator Tom Harkin - who has a deaf brother - was able to address the Democratic National Convention in sign language. But it's a high bar, and more often than not, candidates can't clear...