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...letter that began, "Louis Farrakhan feels we should hate the Jews because they crucified Christ" [LETTERS, Nov. 18]. Representatives of the Roman Empire, not the Jews, ordered the death of Christ. This statement is used by some to justify anti-Semitic beliefs. Bruce Stein Edison...
Their voices float eerily across more than eight decades, ghostly echoes of a fabled operatic golden age: Nellie Melba, Emma Calvé, Jean de Reszke, Lillian Nordica and others, recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera by an enterprising music lover armed with an Edison cylinder machine. The sound is strictly low-fi, the scratchy surface noise is sometimes overwhelming, and the tantalizing fragments often break off abruptly with a singer in mid-phrase. But listening to them is thrilling, like hearing Lincoln recite the Gettysburg Address...
...utilities are supporting the technology. Plug-in cars would open a new market for electricity at night, when utilities have excess capacity. In fact, the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., helped build the plug-in Sprinter. Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug-ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity. "The more hybrids are sold," he says, "the stronger the business case will become for the electric vehicle...
...play a reporter in the film Edison--when not out with honey Cameron Diaz dodging reporters...
Power Games When Electricité de France, the world's largest power provider, snapped up a stake in Italy's energy firm Edison in 2001, it got a nasty shock: Rome capped EDF's voting rights in Edison at a measly 2%. Their claim: the French market wasn't open to competition. (EDF owns 18% of Italenergia, a holding company with a 62% stake in Edison.) But last...