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Rasiej recalls an Internet server going down just before a high school was scheduled to go online in a critical demonstration for the board of education. "No one knew how to fix it," he says, "so we went back to our database and sent out a message for help." An hour and a half later, there was a knock on the door. A computer engineer walked in and said, "I got your e-mail. Where do I start...
...industry is plagued by an antiquated, balkanized transmission grid that wasn't built to wheel power from one region to another. "America is a superpower, but it's got the grid of a Third World nation," Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has warned. "If we don't work together and fix the problem, we'll all end up sitting in the dark...
...that this is a 42-year-old multimillionaire preppie known to ski in boxer shorts and throw Frisbees at conferences, who even dressed as Batman to inaugurate a Manhattan office. Today, Draper tells the assembled pastors, he is ready to spend at least $20 million of his fortune to "fix education." Moreover, he adds, "it won't cut into my lifestyle...
...conscious that there are problems, and we are working to fix them," Moore said. "When someone doesn't get any mail, that's when we investigate...
This may be especially true in an election year, for all of us who have listened already to months of debate over how to help good schools and fix bad ones, and nurse the new economy, and save Social Security, and wondered whether, if we went out and talked to a bunch of voters, they would be concerned about the same things the candidates are talking about. In a country where travelers lament that every town looks the same--Where's Taco Bell? Where's Home Depot?--it's easy to assume that no region is really distinct anymore...