This news item does not refer to the dreaded ?body odor? of the old Lifebuoy ads, but rather to the new, but equally dreaded, form of BO: the blackouts that are punishing the entire nation. In Santo Domingo, the commercial malls are particularly weighed down by million-peso electric bills for service that barely exists and astronomical fuel bills at the local gasoline station to make up for the service that isn?t being provided. According to Hoy, three of the largest malls were hard hit yesterday, and two of them without any power for nearly an hour as their ?standby? generators ?exploded? after 22 hours of continual use. The reporting team of Fior Gil, Fernando Quiroz and Manuel Jimenez discovered that at Diamond Mall, one of the three large generators similarly broke down. While formal generation met a little more than 40% of the national demand, places like Bella Vista Mall were without service of any kind until emergency units could be put into operation. At Diamond Mall, the owners said that they couldn?t keep paying RD$1.2 million for diesel fuel each month, and a like amount to Ede-Sur, the electricity distributor. The owners also reported that the two ice cream shops, Nestle and Baskin-Robbins, have closed their doors until the electric situation improves. At 7pm yesterday, the main generator at Bella Vista Mall gave up the ghost, leaving the entire establishment in the dark for nearly an hour. Of course, none of the cash registers was working during this period. There are 130 locales currently occupied of the 195 spaces in this mall, and the complex has four generation units able to supply 545 KW each. Last evening, one of the four failed due to overuse. The mall?s administrator told the reporters that they are spending RD$1.5 million a month on diesel fuel and that they have to pay the electric company another RD$1.1 million.