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Houghton has a storied family history--his cousin built Houghton Library, located next to Lamont, and his great-great-grandfather manufactured the first light bulb for Thomas A. Edison...
...power companies be short of power? Under deregulation, vertically integrated utilities like SDG&E and Con Ed (as in Edison, as in Thomas Edison, the man who electrified Manhattan) were allowed to sell their power-generation businesses and become middlemen that buy electricity on the open market from new generator operators and distribute it to their customers. "We work hard to find the best deal for our customers," says Steve Bram, Con Ed's senior vice president of central operations. "But we're at the mercy of the sellers." Those sellers, on the other hand, are at the mercy...
...Michael Almereyda: Yes, a Thomas Edison production. The thing that's kind of exciting about working on Shakespeare is the chance to bring something...
...Edison focuses on instilling pride and discipline in youngsters who may have known precious little of either. At Edison's Granville Charter School, which opened two years ago in a former government building in Trenton, N.J., board chairman William Granville Jr. recalls how students initially covered the walls with graffiti and ran shouting down hallways. Today, after hours of instruction devoted to such concepts as dignity and self-respect, orderly students file through spotless white corridors and volunteer to sweep litter off the carpeted floors...
...well does it all work when it comes to learning? While the grades aren't in on the long-term impact of for-profit schooling, early marks have been encouraging. Whittle says Edison students have raised their performance on standardized tests an average of 5 percentage points a year--a hefty gain at a time when many districts report little improvement. But not all Edison schools can show performance superior to public schools. Says Whittle: "We either make it or don't make it on the basis of test scores...