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...Deep in the verdant mountains of Yunnan province, an army of 10,000 workers, some wearing prison-labor uniforms, are toiling on a construction site of enormous proportions. In 2010, this remote section of the Mekong will be transformed into a placid reservoir, drowning the jagged gorges that now cradle the river. Constructed by the Huaneng Group, China's biggest power producer, Xiaowan dam is the nation's second-largest power project after the Three Gorges. As the biggest of the eight dams China plans for its portion of the Mekong, Xiaowan will dwarf the two hydropower projects that have...
...screening - I think it was an Alan Rudolph movie - and the director had come out afterwards. This guy in the audience kept asking questions and at one point the director asked, "and what did you do in your film?" It was Quentin Tarantino - he had just done Reservoir Dogs...
...China along the Yangtze River in Sichuan, Hubei and Anhui provinces. The Three Gorges Dam on the Upper Yangtze began to release flood water Monday, and boat traffic in the dam's lock was stopped. "The Three Gorges Dam has opened 18 sluices and the water level in the reservoir will continue to rise," a worker told the state-run Xinhua news service. "The safety of the dam will be tested." To the north, the level of the Huai River has begun to drop, but not before causing widespread destruction in six provinces. Flooding has also affected the Xinjiang region...
...those of us who were there reporting at the time - that a deadly insurgency was building, and that the United States was frittering away, mainly through ineptitude and a lack of manpower, whatever goodwill was there in the wake of Saddam Hussein's fall. (And there was a reservoir of goodwill at the beginning, even among the Sunni community in Baghdad, in the summer right after the invasion...
...local school playground filled with different gangs - Mods, Rockers, New Romantics - gives an anthropological feel to his study, almost like watching a National Geographic documentary on British youth tribalism. But it's clear where Meadows' own working-class allegiance lies: following Woody's skins strutting through alleyways, apropos of Reservoir Dogs, in drainpipe jeans, checkered shirts and Doc Marten boots...