In India, more than half the country has lost power as three different electrical grids have failed.
More than 600 million people — 600 million! — have been affected by the power outages. That’s about two times the entire population of the United States. Imagine the chaos if our entire country were suddenly to lose power. Then, imagine that occurring in a smaller geographic region, where the density of people is much, much greater than is found here. Then, think of thousands of cars trying to navigate through crowds of hundreds of thousands of pedestrians without traffic lights, subways and trains that have stopped running, hospitals without power, and food spoiling in withering heat. Successfully imagine all that, and you still probably couldn’t grasp the current conditions in Delhi.
Interestingly, India has one of the lowest per capita rates of electricity usage in the world, and significant parts of the country are not wholly electrified. Even so, its power grid simply is not capable of supporting the growing demand.
It makes me appreciate our power grid in this country, where outages usually occur only after devastating storms and service is typically restored within hours. It also makes me wish that some of that stimulus money the federal government shelled out a few years ago had been spent on our power systems, rather than on unnecessary road improvements or other make-work, “shovel ready” projects.
Unfortunately, the Trevi Fountain is badly in need of repair. Earlier this year, some pieces of the 250-year-old fountain — 
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First, about IMAX: I frankly don’t think it’s worth the extra money for standard Hollywood fare. Before yesterday, the only IMAX movies I’d seen were nature-type movies about hiking on mountains or rafting through the Grand Canyon — movies where the spectacular scenery, on the huge screens, made for an overwhelmingly memorable experience. Action-movie footage of Gotham City, car chases, and hand-to-hand combat just don’t have the same impact, no matter how loud the explosions might be. IMAX gives you a bigger screen in a bigger theater, but I wasn’t able to appreciate any other material differences from your normal movie experience.
t’s a perfectly acceptable end to the Dark Knight trilogy, as characters and scenes from the prior two Dark Knight films make appearances. Christian Bale has the Batman and Bruce Wayne characters down cold, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman play their enjoyable supporting roles well, and Gary Oldman is steady and unflappable as Commissioner Gordon. My favorite characters were Anne Hathaway, as an untrustworthy cat burglar thief turned ally, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a cop trying to deal with the carnage. It’s rare that you appreciate acting — as opposed to action — in a film like this, but Hathaway’s performance broke through the explosions and fistfights. And I think Gordon-Levitt makes a very convincing, and believable, action movie hero.
I admired the straightforward nature of the name. The moniker told you everything you needed to know about the character. It was just some guy — probably a teenager looking to make a few bucks during the summer break — walking around in a cheesy looking cow costume, getting his picture taken with Fair food-stoked kids at the behest of their doting parents. Man + cow costume = Cowman. Never mind that cows are, by definition, female, so that “Cowman” is a complete non sequitur.
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These figures are often revised, and perhaps this announcement will be modified in the future. And 1.5 percent growth is better than flat-lining, or actual economic contraction, but that’s about the extent of the positive things you can say about this news. Such economic growth is measly by any measure. It’s not enough expansion to create real employment opportunities for the new people entering the job market — good luck finding work if you are someone who graduated from college this year — and it basically means that the economy is in a stall. We’ll just have to hope that the stall ends with upward movement, and not a nose dive into new, double-dip recessionary territory.
Yes, Mr. Webner. 
