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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...plans for investing in energy will be merged with his need to stimulate the economy. This means upgrading the nationwide electrical grid to prevent power outages and shore up weak spots. Democratic officials say another key initiative will be a nationwide campaign to install so-called smart meters that monitor energy flows to limit waste. Some high-tech players in the field claim such devices could ease pressures on the grid and save consumers millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jump-Starting the Obama Presidency | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...problem, and this is one way of getting it back into line. It also doesn't mean that there can't be bonuses pegged to performance (maybe the President should have that too?)--but it is precisely performance in this new federally supported universe that we need to monitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Focal Points | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

State crews will monitor the Breakers reef, a popular diving spot, next week, weather-permitting, in order to curtail private divers from entering the damaged area and flipping and moving corals. Those divers may believe they are doing good but such movement may actually further damage the reef and inhibit government restoration efforts. Sponges should be left to recover alone; but damaged brain, maze, great star and other hard corals will have to be cemented in placed at their old location. Such hard corals are so sensitive and take decades to grow back, at a rate of a few centimeters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Killing Florida's Coral Reefs? | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...Manansang, who was born in Papua, estimates only one or two percent of 67,200 HIV/AIDS sufferers in Papua would qualify for the microchip. "The chip would send off a signal when infected blood comes into contact with non-infected blood so it would monitor the spread." Some 77% of those infected, according to 2006 government data, are indigenous Papuans, who make up about half of the province's population of 2.8 million people. "I am only trying to prevent the extinction of the Papuan people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papua Proposal: A Microchip to Track the HIV-Positive | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...course of his 14 years working as a general practitioner at a hospital near Papua's capital. "When people find out they are infected they often get depressed but others undergo a severe change in behavior and get angry. It is only those people we are trying to monitor and keep under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papua Proposal: A Microchip to Track the HIV-Positive | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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