  Yet onshore, in towns like this one, not a light is to be seen
-- not a street lamp, not a glow in a window -- as women crouch
by the roadside at dawn, sorting by candlelight the vegetables
they will sell for two cents a bunch at the morning market.
Paraffin and wood are major sources of light and heat. People
receive two hours of electricity a day from a military
government that is among the world's most repressive.  But
attempts at outside pressure to prod the government to address
its people's needs and curb abuses have faltered, in large part
because China's thirst for resources has undermined nearly a
decade of American economic sanctions.  Critics say that
Washington's policy has handed Myanmar, formerly Burma, to
China. Still, as President Bush prepares to meet with leaders at
the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Vietnam
on Nov. 17, one topic on his agenda will be how to keep up the
pressure. He is not likely to find cooperation, not from rivals
like China and Russia, nor even cou