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Florida Power & Light (FPL), the giant South Florida utility that runs Turkey Point and the Miami substation where the blackout started, has yet to discover why the breaker that should have isolated the fire problem failed. "These systems are all designed to handle two contingencies," FPL President Armando Olivera told...
But Florida, like the rest of the country, neglected its power infrastructure investment in the 1990s. And FPL scrutinizers like Mike Twomey, a former Florida Public Service Commission attorney and founder of Florida Utility Watch, says that despite the problems, the company still has "a very high reliability rate" compared...
...rights to access Internet content, run applications, and connect legal devices of their choice, as well as to choose among network and application providers. “Our job is to decide where to draw the line between discrimination and reasonable network management,” said FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps.Recently, broadband provider Comcast—the U.S.’s largest cable company—came under fire for allegedly stalling uploads with peer-to-peer file sharing applications such as BitTorrent. “The reason we are here today is because of allegations that some...
But plausibility is the concern of the 9/11 Commission, not of audiences looking for an exciting time at a February popcorn picture. Their vantage point isn't above the action, where they can dispassionately parse the plot and solve the mystery. It's behind the wheel of Dennis Quaid's...
Harvard does not sell the naming rights to academic departments. In a pinch, such a strategy might raise a few million dollars for the school—and would likely reach a logical end with the “J.P. Morgan Faculty of Arts and Sciences”?...