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...Throughout the recess, China kept the talks alive with bilateral meetings, pushing draft proposals on Pyongyang. But when the delegates returned on Sept. 13, North Korea's demand for a reactor remained unchanged. For the U.S., North Korea's position had less to do with energy needs?its power grid is in a shambles?than scoring political points. But with Hill ready to pack his bags, the Chinese came up with a fifth draft proposal: a delicately-worded compromise that raised the possibility that North Korea could have its trophy reactor at some point, while committing Pyongyang to ending...
...trial, for example, taps into TV towers owned by Arqiva that emit a signal picked up by the Nokia handset. But mobile operators are pushing their networks, too; earlier this year, Fox TV launched a special, trimmed-down version of the hit drama 24 over Vodafone's cellular grid. U.S. sports giant espn and Extreme Group, which produces "extreme-sports" shows, are even starting their own mobile-phone services, in part to distribute video. "This gives us a chance to drive the content," says Vladimir Edelman, director of wireless for espn Mobile. espn claims an audience of 97 million sports...
...says a Western diplomat attached to the CPA, "and they happened to be the people in the country best acquainted with the use of arms." Thousands moved directly into the insurgency--not just soldiers but also civil servants who took with them useful knowledge of Iraq's electrical grid and water and sewage systems. Bremer says he doesn't regret that decision, according to his spokesman Dan Senor. "The Kurds and Shi'ites didn't want Saddam's army in business," says Senor, "and the army had gone home. We had bombed their barracks. How were we supposed to bring...
...blink their red warning lights. These, too, are within easy range of the rockets of Hamas once Israel takes its troops out of northern Gaza, as are the massive circular fuel tanks around its perimeter, and Israeli officials fear a strike against the plant could cripple Israel's electricity grid. It abuts the city of Ashkelon, which has grown to a mpopulation of 120,000 as new immigrants from Russia flooded into its bright white apartment blocks during the last decade. "That," says Miri Eisen, a former Israeli army colonel who rides the helicopter with us, "makes a pretty good...
...power equipment is more than 60 years old. Theft of copper and aluminum transmission lines for sale as scrap in China is rampant, even though it's a capital offense. Says Han Young Jin, who worked as an electrical engineer in Pyongyang before defecting to Seoul in 2002: "The grid is a mess." Seoul estimates that building the extra generating capacity and lines needed would cost $1.7 billion, but the final price could be many times higher. Turning on the power could cause the North's dilapidated grid to melt down, so South Korea might have to rebuild that...