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...lost on everyone in the council. Joshua A. Barro ’05, a representative from Adams House, has correctly criticized one recent instance of executive session as “totally inappropriate.” Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 has countered that these blackout tactics, initiated by any one representative’s motion and authorized by a simple majority of council members present, are made necessary by the high-stakes give-and-take he and other representatives must engage in. “Basically, when we are negotiating with the president?...
...Museum of Towing, enters a BGA (Bad Golfers Association) tournament, investigates the Mothman legend in West Virginia, crashes the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame, attends the Fruitcake demolition derby (that piece has to be retired) or just walks home the night of last August?s blackout. Stoic bafflement - a deadpan stare into the camera - is Geist?s usual game. But, when pressed, he can celebrate. For a wonderful ?CBS SM? show dedicated to New York City, Geist reported on Pale Male, the red tailed hawk who has lived for the past decade on a window ledge...
...fascinating French twist, the action takes place during the Nazi occupation. Where most detective fiction involves a city unofficially run by gangsters, here the villains are outwardly in control. As atmospheres go, it doesn't get much more corrupt and poisonous than this. On streets darkened by air-raid blackout conditions and plastered with anti-Semitic propaganda, Burma goes about his stoic business...
During the great blackout of August 2003, millions of Americans learned two important lessons: that it is possible to spend an entire evening at home without watching TV and that we should all have backup batteries for our cell phones. For those who need a better contingency plan, this portable fuel-cell generator provides a kilowatt of continuous power for eight hours on a single tank of environmentally correct hydrogen. The AirGen is a tad bulky (about the size of a mini-fridge), but you can roll it under a desk. Unlike a gas-powered generator, it emits only water...
...banking system and strangle the economy? Information technology controls the nation's physical infrastructure--nuclear plants, air-traffic control, water systems--like a central nervous system. "Hits against the IT network will cascade to the other critical infrastructures," Stolfo said. (Consider the cascading effect of this year's blackout...