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...year. Given that Florida is a demographic postcard of 21st century America-- "More a crowd than a community," state Democratic leader Buddy MacKay once quipped--the answer says a lot about where the nation's politics is headed. Florida has a long tradition of diffusing power among its chaotic grid of ethnic and social groups, making its voters perhaps the country's most pragmatic--the first hypercentrist electorate. Jeb Bush found that out when he ran an ideological campaign in 1994 and lost, then in 1998 became a compassionate conservative like his brother and won. "The country is tired...
...profit--have been reluctant to invest in billion-dollar plants without understanding the vagaries of the free market, and upstart energy providers are still trying to figure out which markets are worth the hefty investments required. At the same time, the 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...
...about utility. Ban has managed to turn ugly-duckling cardboard into some gorgeous swans. The Japanese pavilion he created for this year's EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Germany, is a huge undulating grid of paper tubes enclosed, like a covered wagon, with a paper canopy. A nine-ton, 87-ft.-long lattice arch of tubes currently swoops over the garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, casting a thatch of ever changing shadows...
...next morning as we had breakfast, Coast Guard helicopters clattered back and forth across the Sound, flying low, searching in patient grid patterns. I logged on to check my e-mail, and saw a news headline: "JFK JR.'S PLANE MISSING...
...Ghana's capital 2. Indonesia's President, who has won a reprieve 3. Grid great Young, who is retiring 4. Ain't right? 5. HBO competitor 6. Where Jekyll became Hyde 7. Skinhead group: __ Brotherhood 8. Kind of bonding 9. Rebels have seized control of the capital of the __ Islands 10. Gov't agency banning pesticide chlorpyrifos 11. Tussaud's medium 16. She's at odds with 45-Down over campaign fund raising 20. Name on a 1973 decision 22. Beatnik home 23. Gore is proposing a $30 billion __ care program 25. Folk singer DiFranco 26. Mardi Gras figure...