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...result, energy demand in the state has sky-rocketed, to the point where the power grid cannot support the demands. The situation is so dire that the state recently instituted an energy emergency, which gives the system's administrator the right to black out houses on a rotating basis for an hour at a time. Added to the fact that the state cannot supply enough power for its residence, the price of power has also risen dramatically. In San Diego, for example, the price of energy tripled this summer...
...promise of the hybrids is that consumers won't have to make sacrifices in style, performance or comfort to drive them. Unlike battery-electric vehicles, which are plugged into the power grid, hybrids combine a small gasoline engine with an electric motor and travel under their own power. When the Prius advances slowly or idles in traffic, the electric motor takes over, thus minimizing the pollution caused by stop-and-go driving. The gasoline engine powers the battery and kicks in for acceleration. When the car coasts or brakes, the motor becomes a generator, capturing the energy that would normally...
...direction comes at a dark time for Ma Bell. Since its founding in 1885 as the long-distance arm of the American Bell Telephone Co., AT&T has held a privileged position in the U.S. economy. With its control of the nation's phone grid, it was largely insulated from competition. That deprived consumers of choice. ("We don't care," Lily Tomlin's Ernestine the Operator used to explain. "We don't have to. We're the phone company.") It also made the company's stock such a sound investment that it became famous as the stock of choice...
Even so, there are some surprising omissions. The grid city of 19th century Barcelona, designed from the ground up as an ideal townscape by the socialist engineer Ildefons Cerda, is the biggest example of would-be Utopian town design that ever got built--but neither it nor its inventor rates a mention in the catalog...
...taken the lead in the Cole investigation. Last week it got a break in another case when a former Army sergeant pleaded guilty to conspiring in the embassy-bombing plot, fingering Bin Laden as an associate. In Aden, FBI and Navy divers have set up a crime-scene grid on the bottom of the harbor to sift evidence systematically. The divers are searching it inch by inch for the remains of the bomb, the boat that carried it and the suicide bombers. Officials tell TIME that sailors aboard the Cole took snapshots as the ship arrived in port. FBI agents...