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Though officials were quick to say what hadn't happened, they were at a loss to explain what had. How can the power demands of a not unusually hot day somehow bring a huge chunk of the northeastern electrical grid crashing down? The blame cascaded as fast as the blackout. On the ground some Americans blamed Canada for its origin; Canadians returned the favor. Ottawa officials first suggested that it was a lightning strike at a plant in upstate New York, except that it was a lovely sunny day in Niagara Falls, and there were no reports of lightning anywhere...
...says, "I would say it again." The government insists it was merely upholding the law when it shut the Uzan businesses down. Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said the Uzan utilities failed to pay debts and repeatedly refused to turn over their transmission lines to the newly formed national grid. Erdogan denied that his government was engaged in a political witch-hunt. "We have no personal vendetta," he said last week. "We have a duty to the people who elected us to rid the country of dirty odors." Analysts agree that while the crackdown may serve a political purpose...
...your main job is to protect the power grid. But someone must. Baghdad was without power for six days last week, a consequence of looting and sabotage. Locals weren't impressed by the American response. "The Iraqi people saw the Americans defeat Saddam in three weeks," said one man. "Are they telling us they can't fix the power in three months?" Abizaid conceded to the Senate committee that "protection of the infrastructure is a problem." He thought there was no need yet to add more troops to the 145,000 in Iraq. But, he added, "we won't hesitate...
...include unofficial artists or those from the worldwide diaspora - but it does provide an introductory look at some of the creative instincts within the awakening giant. Thanks to its playful presentation by designer Laurence Fontaine, it's also a lot of fun. The works are carefully planned on a grid, then executed by assistants. But though their genesis sounds cerebral, their impact is direct and visceral. They come right out and grab you - and you find you can't look away...
...south, like Basra, conditions are much better than they are in Baghdad, in part because they are smaller and more manageable and in part because they are areas that were less sympathetic to Saddam and the Baath. There has been some progress in Baghdad too. Iraq's patchwork power grid last week managed to pump more than 1,000 MW of electricity into the city for the first time since the main fighting ended--though that was still less than half of prewar levels. But disorder still prevails in the capital. "There's no doubt in my mind that crime...