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...solar storm knocked out Hydro-Quebec transformers, leaving 6 million people in eastern Canada and the U.S. Northeast without electricity for nine hours. The same storm disrupted shortwave radio transmissions, crippled Coast Guard loran navigation systems and had automatic garage doors opening on their...
...HYDRO-QUEBEC During heat wave, sells power to sweltering N.Y.C. at 30 times regular price. Bright idea...
...have attracted up to 75 followers around Quebec and 200 more in Switzerland and France. Though some were recruited from among his patients, most learned of him through the lectures he gave on two continents. In 1988 and 1989 he was paid to speak at a public utility, Hydro-Quebec, where he talked of "self-realization" and recruited more than a dozen employees. Listeners who seemed receptive to his initial message might find themselves invited to join an inner circle where his full apocalyptic vision was unveiled...
Dartmouth College, however, divested itself ofall its Hydro-Quebec bond holdings, nearly tenpercent of its total endowment, after a petitionof more than 2,300 signatures urged Dartmouth'sBoard of Trustees to consider ending the college'sownership of project bonds...
...college ... makes no moral judgment aboutprojects being built by Hydro-Quebec," said VicePresident and Treasurer Lyn Hutton. "This decisionis made for reasons specific to our community...