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...example, but it's also our transmission lines. The fact [is]that we badly need to modernize that infrastructure. Some of the problems in California, for example have to do with the difficulty they have moving power from Northern California to Southern California because of an inadequate power grid...
...there were more games in town.' Local companies that offer green options siphon off potential customers?including 30 other EP&L churches?but Green Mountain remains the most dedicated national player. The total output of U.S. renewables is 16,500 MW, about 2% of the total U.S. grid. 'Until the demand for green energy increases, you're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,' says Adam Markham of Clean Air?Cool Planet, a nonprofit in Portsmouth...
...across the Atlantic, are the ones most likely to fall for the Nomade compass watch Hermès introduced at the Basel watch fair last month. A perfect target might include the American editor of a European business magazine who, frustrated with the lack of a New York-style grid system for streets in London, has taken to carrying a compass to find his way around town. Now he can look slightly less conspicuous standing on Piccadilly trying to find Regent Street. Hermès cleverly found a way to hide a compass beneath the watch's stainless steel face...
...Jerusalem, says Meyers, that Herod "undertook to make one of the major wonders of the ancient world." He rebuilt the existing meandering streets on a paved grid and created a moat-ringed palace featuring--in a moisture-starved region--picturesque water gardens. He added an amphitheater and a hippodrome. But the jewel in the crown, the spiritual, economic and social center of Judea and an icon to Jews throughout the region, was the Temple. It was his bid to rival Solomon, biblical builder of the Jews' first great house of worship, which had been razed by the Babylonians some...
...path of the Via Dolorosa, the Stations of the Cross, through the Old City of Jerusalem is almost certainly inaccurate. It follows a 14th century grid of the city rather than a 1st century plan, and probably reflects the desire of 14th century merchants along the way to get pilgrims' business. But the hill of Golgotha (a.k.a. Calvary) and Jesus' burial cave, both located by tradition in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, are a different matter...