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...During L.A.'s rolling blackout...
When the lights went out in California last month, cash registers rang up north. In one critical 24-hour period on Jan. 18, British Columbia Hydro supplied more than one-third of the power desperate Californians needed to stave off a statewide blackout. The rescue didn't come cheap: the utility may have earned $3 million from the deal. "It's been a windfall," admits B.C. Hydro spokesman Wayne Cousins...
...energy system on the continent," says Ray Hart, deputy director of the Department of California Water Resources. "I don't know if we'll get it." In particular, rising doubts about deregulation could impede Canadian plans to finance increased energy production, which in turn could help the U.S. avoid blackout...
...during the spring storm season. Often he would stay up nights watching the horizon as twisters cut deadly swaths nearby. Twice, he says, they touched down on his property, tearing up fences and farm equipment, though luckily missing his house. One night, while waiting up in a storm-induced blackout, he wondered whether there was a better way to warn people that a twister was forming: "I knew that the one thing that always worked in the disasters was the phone lines, because they are buried. So I invented a system that would provide storm warnings to rural areas where...
...press plane for a little postgame chatter. Reason: reporters had barred him, and his "off the record" sessions, from their part of the plane. It was their response to the campaign's decision to cancel press conferences for the last seven weeks of the campaign. For most pols, a blackout would be reason to haul out the peanuts and Cracker Jack, but for the slap-and-tickle candidate, this was punishment. Bush likes to gambol and gibe, because that's what baseball is too. Which is why his off-the-record chats tell you more about Bush in minutes than...