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...TIME.com: What happened Wednesday in the Northwest...
David Wookey, vice president and general manager for Northwest Airlines in Asia, thinks it's important to give the customers the option of going high-tech, but "there will always be people who want a paper ticket and a flesh-and-blood check-in person to talk to." He's got a point. When your connection is snowed in and you miss the big meeting, you'll look a bit foolish screaming at a camera...
They lost. In fact, the utilities rolled snake eyes time and time again. While the state's appetite for electricity was growing fast, its generating capacity was getting no bigger. Today California imports about 25% of its juice from neighbors in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest--a link that has frayed with the growing demand in those areas. Nor did anyone foresee a spike in rates for natural gas, which fires about half of California's generating plants and can account for more than half of the price of electricity. Then, as the rising demand for power met its restricted...
That doesn't mean they are going to duplicate California's calamity. But the promised benefits of deregulation have for the most part remained just that. New York City is facing an electricity shortage this summer. In the Northwest, Oregon and Washington, which typically import power from California in the winter, have recently been sending juice south and find themselves exposed to a cruel market driven up by their neighbor's woes. "Retail utilities may lack the financial resources to purchase needed supplies or build the generation we all agree is necessary," Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber wrote in a letter...
...acre plot where Mondavi could produce 240,000 bottles of top-quality wine each year. After two years of road trips, wine tasting and geological surveying, he settled on a patch of scrub-covered hillside on the Massif de l'Arboussas, above the village of Aniane, about 15 miles northwest of the regional center of Montpellier. There was just one problem: the land belonged to the village. "French people wouldn't even think about doing something on common land," Pearson says. "But we went ahead and asked...