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...almost entirely self-sufficient, relying on the grid only in the event that they needed to top themselves off with a sip or two of outside power. Just as important, they would have the freedom to disconnect from the larger network entirely if a regional crash was threatening to knock them off-line along with the bigger consumers. Similar independent systems could be used to provide power to individual users with especially big energy appetites, such as factories or hospitals...
...hardly foolproof. Attackers could break into a remote generating station and seize control, or cut through a fence to plant a time bomb during the night. "The bottom line is, it's pretty vulnerable," says a Senate energy expert. "There are key nodes out there that, if attacked, can knock out a pretty large section of the country...
...Remaking whole nation-states in some of the world's most troubled regions is nothing if not a "big government" affair. It may take relatively small numbers of troops to knock out odious regimes, but stabilizing the countries they leave behind inevitably requires a lot more - a point some of the Iraq war's key architects, such as Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, seemed conceptually unable to grasp before the war. But as the Economist tartly notes, war lite is all very well, empire lite could be a tragic mistake. Iraq - and Afghanistan - are only likely to be stabilized...
Justin Feldman said that Zachariah Germaniuk did not trip and accidentally knock Feldman into the window. “He threw me out the window,” Feldman said...
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks freely and carries a big stick. He has revolutionized Italy's perennially gray politics but drawn fire for his vast media holdings as well as for gaffes like a tasteless Nazi gibe directed at a German colleague and a knock on German tourists by one of his deputies. TIME's Jeff Israely talked with him on the eve of his visit with President Bush...