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...supply like northern Africa and central Asia. Renewables like windmills and solar panels are part of the solution - the number has grown exponentially in the past five years in Europe - but aren't dependable. There's an equally urgent need for investment in transmission and distribution, often the chief culprit in blackouts. Colette Lewiner, a Paris-based energy expert at consultants Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, points to two problems. Unlike power generation, transmission and distribution networks are "natural" monopolies that can't be liberalized; it makes no sense to build competing electric lines. Regulators have pressured transmission companies...
...negotiation so that allies and domestic voters alike will not carp that war is his primary tool of foreign policy. "It seems both sides don't want to compromise," says Lee Jung Hoon, a political scientist at Yonsei University in Seoul. "But neither wants to be seen as the culprit for the lack of progress...
...article for The Washington Post, Dale Russakoff claimed to have discovered the original authors of the plaque: Stanley Stefancic and Tom Sugimoto, graduate students at Harvard in the mid-60s. Since then, the plaque has been stolen and replaced, with no clues as to the identity of the culprit...
...world's a stage, then is there such a thing as lying, or is it just acting? Let's ask KEVIN SPACEY, the Oscar winner who told London police he had been "mugged" in a park while walking his dog at 4:30 a.m. Spacey later confessed that the culprit was a con man who had tricked him into handing over his cell phone. The bump on his head? Self-inflicted, as the thespian gave chase, tripped over his dog and fell. Spacey later jokingly implied that David Beckham had bribed him to do something stupid enough to move...
...could the culprit be? Apparently, it’s our job to figure it out. But the crowd doesn’t seem to be too worried about this responsibility—the table of Marinaras sitting behind us are too busy swilling drinks and singing adult renditions of “Little Bunny Foo-Foo” to agonize over Ditalina’s tears. Our entrees—a choice of salmon, chicken, or eggplant parmesan—arrive, and our table bonds as we try to piece together the clues. All we end up piecing together...