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...Rugby World Cup: For Love and Money Once More With Feeling As five-time formula One world champion Michael Schumacher waits on the grid of the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on Oct. 12 he'll have one thing on his mind: the old F1 adage, "In order to finish first, first you have to finish." Going into the season's last race, he leads McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen by nine points, and just needs to finish in the first eight to secure a record-breaking sixth championship. Williams' Juan Pablo Montoya, touted by many F1 pundits as the heir...
...corps in part by reminding officers that they serve a greater good?witness Shanghai's police slogan: "The People Are Our Mother and Father." Shanghai has become a model for "community policing," an attempt to introduce modern, people-friendly law-enforcement methods. City leaders divided the city into a grid?10,000 households per sector?and opened a tiny office with one officer in each sector. Neighborhood officers respond not just to emergencies but to people locked out of their apartments and senile residents who get lost?a way of breaking down the distrust the public feels toward the police...
...order. Instead, they're in a sorry state. And without basic utilities, factories aren't generating very much of anything--including badly needed jobs that would help win hearts and minds. The new Electricity Minister, Ayham al-Samaraie, estimates it will cost $18 billion just to fix the power grid...
...lights went out in lots of places during the blackout of 2003, but they were burning brightly in Zurich, home of engineering giant ABB. The company expects to earn up to $2 billion as the U.S. reinvests in its glitchy power grid. ABB claims more than 60% of the market for the electric-transmission and -distribution equipment that needs renovation or replacement. "This isn't going to happen overnight," says Randy Schrieber, vice president of ABB's U.S. Power Technologies division. "But the impetus that the utility companies have shown from the blackout bodes well for us." This promising news...
Experts suggest that utility ratepayers could be on the hook for $50 billion or more to upgrade the electric-power grid. Meanwhile, the current annual Federal Government investment in solar-energy tax credits and research programs is less than $100 million. Solar power kept working when the grid went down. What is wrong with this picture? GLENN HAMER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION Washington...