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...power plant in the eastern province of Jiangsu admitted that it had only three days' worth of coal reserves, according to an energy expert from the West who visited it last month. To cope, the plant is signing under-the-table deals with wildcat coal mines that had been shut down as part of a government campaign to repair the country's atrocious mining-safety record. "The government is turning a blind eye to these illegal mines starting up again," says the expert. "It's the only immediate solution they have to the coal problem...
...Chalabi whose code name was Curveball, but from an Israeli tip going back to 1994. Bamford quotes anonymous CIA agents who say that they suspected that much of the hard-liners' intelligence on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was bogus but there was pressure from within and without to shut up about...
...Burn, baby, burn. That's a beautiful thing." ENRON TRADER, after a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, on an audio tape showing apparent collusion to manipulate energy prices in the state...
...when one of her students returned from working in the search-and-rescue operation at the Oklahoma City bombing site in 1995. "Everybody says robots can save lives and make the world a better place," she notes. "It was clear then that it was time to put up or shut up." Her work led to the first robots built specifically for the task, to be released in the next year by American Standard Robotics and the Northrop Grumman subsidiary Remotec. The robots are expected to be able to gather data by themselves so that operators can focus on the emergency...
...revenues and sharply higher spending for defense had sent the deficit through the roof. But as Dick Cheney is reported to have said, "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter." In his recent memoir, former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill quotes the Vice President using those words to shut down an internal White House debate over the budgetary impact of Bush's tax cuts. And at least with respect to the political costs, he was right. Reagan demonstrated that among voters, the easily understood appeal of tax cuts neutralized the abstract peril of big deficits. It's a trick...