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...said she knew only two or three people downtown. I remember my first weeks downtown. Because it is the oldest part of the city, the roads intersect at irregular and often unexpected angles. It took me weeks to find my bearings and, even now, I have to imagine a grid in my head to find my way. I cannot imagine how disoriented she must have felt...
...there is. His emphatic Aug. 19 win in the Hungarian Grand Prix gave him a fourth Formula One drivers' championship and tied Alain Prost's career record of 51 race victories. Schumacher had a good weekend. He had set the best time in practice, bagged pole position on the grid by more than half a second over his championship rival, McLaren driver David Coulthard, and led the race from start to finish. After the race Coulthard congratulated Schumacher and jokingly recommended "that he take a holiday for the last four Grands Prix." Persuading Schumacher to take a rest...
...August-centered effect of those magical tax rebate checks hasn?t had a chance to show up on the radar screen. And GM?s other utterance this week - about their success with free-standing stationery hydrogen fuel cells - suddenly got people thinking about a smog-less, grid-less energy future. Or at least a promising new thing for manufacturing to manufacture...
Carey noted that yesterday’s outage was unrelated to yesterday’s call for electricity conservation by the operator of New England’s power grid. With the hot weather, New England’s power demand yesterday forced power companies to dip into their reserve supplies...
...Trust us, Mr. Bush. Look at California. With some prodding from state-induced conservation measures - and some big rate hikes - usage is down 12 percent since last June and the state is running a surplus. Three new power plants have added 1,400 megawatts to the grid, but conservation has added 5,570 more to the balance sheet. And nobody's starving of economic sluggishness...