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...some nervousness." A TIME/CNN poll last week has Americans, 2 to 1, saying they'd like him on the court ASAP. And only 21% thought that if he came back and just completely bombed, it would damage his legend. In fact only 28% think athletes should retire at their peak. It makes you wonder if a lot of the people who answer calls from pollsters are ex-high school jocks in a state of major denial...
...points out that in 1996 the California legislature discontinued a policy that encouraged alternatives and efficiency by allowing utilities to make money even if they sold less power (a policy that was reinstituted in April). Policies that allow solar and wind power to be sold to the grid during peak production periods--now in place in more than 30 states--also are encouraging use of renewables...
...future of nuclear power in this country--because the Federal Government wants to bury inside Yucca Mountain the most toxic garbage that humankind has produced: 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste generated by America's 103 nuclear power plants. A thousand feet below the mountain's peak, a tunneling machine called the "Yucca Mucker" has bored a 25-ft.-wide shaft into its center; inside that shaft, technicians in hard hats are running tests to see whether Yucca can begin receiving high-level nuclear waste, perhaps by 2010. For the past 14 years, Yucca has been the Department...
...fact, it was petrol - rationed and costly in late-'50s England - that motivated the old British Motor Corp. (BMC) to develop the first Mini. Its popularity among the minor royals and pop stars in Swinging '60s London gave the Mini cachet; at its peak it was among Britain's best-selling cars. "It was classy because it was classless, stylish because it wasn't styled," says Brian...
...missed it, here's what happened: Webvan's stock was trading at a mere eight cents, or 99% off its November 1999 peak. Since the NASDAQ habitually delists stocks that slip below a dollar, there seemed little chance this e-tailer would stay in the big boys' league. Then some bright (or desperate) spark at company HQ in Foster City came up with the idea of a 25 to 1 reverse stock split. In other words, for every 25 shares you owned before the split, you'd now only own one. The resulting drought should leave Webvan standing $2 tall...