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...real assurance, however, may be that many utilities aren't counting on complete success. Rather, most plan to have extra people and manual work-arounds in place for critical systems, according to Jon Arnold, chief technology officer at the Edison Electric Institute, which represents the public utilities that generate more than three-quarters of the country's electricity. "People forget that electric utilities have equipment failures and outages all the time," says Arnold. He acknowledges that "it's not going to be a typical New Year's Eve" in 1999. But, he adds, Y2K "is not like a storm...
...effort to realize that goal, Socarides said the Departments of Justice and Education have recently initiated the production of a manual on prevention of hate crimes. The centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also conducted a study about gay youths as risk...
People who had quit start again and others,like Kassam, just bitterly lament, "I'm addicted!"as reason for continuing. One junior's explanationfor continuing his habit was little more secureabout myself. I think it has something to do witha manual-oral fixation and how I like my hands tostay busy. I can just be walking along, and whenI'm smoking, I sometimes feel I don't have a carein the world. I think 'It's just me and mycigarette and everything's okay.' Smoking makes meslow down and appreciate every walk more...
...that the Chinese people had endured, it seems not to have been too hard for Mao to persuade them of the visionary force and practical need for the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s. In Mao's mind, the intensive marshaling of China's energies would draw manual and mental labor together into a final harmonious synthesis and throw a bridge across the chasm of China's poverty to the promised socialist paradise on the other side...
...what is it that Pope John Paul II uniquely brings to the millennium? Almost all who have experienced him at close quarters understand the special luminosity he radiates when surrounded live by a million people. But the great historical backdrop of his splendor fades. He was the student and manual laborer from Wadowice in Poland who became the first non-Italian Pope in 450 years. His was the dominant spiritual presence in the final round of the great revolutionary challenge that began soon after the turn of the century and sought no less than to alter Western assumptions about human...