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...Ergot" number four (Avodah Books; 324 pp.; $24.95), a mammoth example of these new books, gives strong competition to high-end museum catalogues but at one-quarter the price. Avodah Books boils down to one man, Sammy Harkham, a big, bearded guy in his twenties who means to knock you out with aesthetic overload. "Ergot" is not a book to take on a plane to lose yourself in a great story. Many of the contributions couldn't even be called comix and most of the rest have nonsensical, free-associative narratives. Collage and full-page illustration mix with the likes...
...officials may say, in the words of one White House aide, "We're more than happy to have the [2004 presidential] election become a debate on whether or not it was the right decision to go to war in Iraq," but an endless drip of American casualties might knock the edge off that bluster. And such an outcome is possible. "This is asymmetric warfare all the way, and in asymmetric you can't win," says a U.S. official closely involved in Iraq policy. "There isn't a military solution, and I'm not alone in saying that...
...know about vitameatavegemin. You know about the consuming romance and contentious breakup with Desi Arnaz. You know about the glory years of I Love Lucy and the slow slide into irrelevance with a string of Lucy knock-offs. But I'll bet you didn't know this about Lucille Ball: "She once took an open-cockpit plane up in weather 20 below freezing to effect the rescue of a schoolboy...
...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...