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...then, new technology such as fiber-optic control systems and advanced high-speed transmission lines may help bind the wobbly system together. "Our vision is really a seamless cross-border market for electricity," says Hydro Quebec's Candal. That's a lot better, and a lot harder to achieve, than a quick profit on calamity...
...senior Pentagon officer. "Saddam is eventually going to get lucky. We just want to delay that day as long as possible." The wily boss of Baghdad had been pouring money into reconstructing his dated (but deadly) "Tall King" and "Volex" radars and linking them together with new underground fiber-optic cables. That would give the dishes much sharper eyes in the sky and antiaircraft shooters a faster bead on their targets. Pilots on no-fly patrol have lately noticed newly aggressive Iraqi tactics in picking up their aircraft, and they have complained that some surface-to-air missile operator might...
...homes in a region that experienced blackouts last week, but the San Jose City Council vetoed the project in November, even though groups ranging from the Sierra Club to the N.A.A.C.P. supported it. But the plant faced opposition from Cisco Systems, the leading producer of high-speed fiber-optic networks, which happens to be San Jose's largest employer. Cisco argued that the power plant would be an eyesore next to an industrial park that the company plans to build for 20,000 employees...
...connections--compared with 20 million telephone lines; 2 million people in Bombay have high-speed access to the Internet, often by way of a television set, not an expensive PC. (There are 75 million TVs in India.) A slew of companies, including Enron and Hughes Telecom, are building fiber-optic networks to boost those numbers...
...connections--compared with 20 million telephone lines; 2 million people in Bombay have high-speed access to the Internet, often by way of a television set, not an expensive PC. (There are 75 million TVs in India.) A slew of companies, including Enron and Hughes Telecom, are building fiber-optic networks to boost those numbers...