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...electric-power grid to the water supply. Last week two Muslim men not connected to al-Qaeda were indicted in South Florida for conspiring to blow up two electric-power stations. The Administration dismissed as unreliable a tip that terrorists may be planning to hit a U.S. nuclear plant on July 4. But that was a reminder of the vulnerability of U.S. nuclear facilities. Staged terrorist attacks on commercial power plants succeed about half the time. After 9/11, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered a review of security at the U.S.'s 103 nuclear plants. But the agency...
...question the system, and heads off down the highway to spread the news and stretch his newfound spiritual wings. Sadly, that's where the resemblance ends between the footloose Beat novelist and 21-year-old Lucas Helder, whose strange idea of raising America's consciousness was to plant explosives in heartland mailboxes...
...Napster users ever transferred their stash of tunes onto a CD; the rest kept them on a computer. Since piracy has gone portable--and local--it is perceived as more of a threat. "It used to matter whether there was some bad guy in a Chinese manufacturing plant sending out thousands of counterfeit copies," says Rosen. "Now people at home can have the same impact...
...sagging fortunes of U.S. energy companies. Without access to the capital markets, power producers canceled an estimated 33% of the power projects on the drawing board for this year, according to Platts, an energy-industry research service based in New York City. "You'll pretty much see the power-plant cycle stopping dead in its tracks," says John Olson, an energy-industry analyst at Sanders Morris Harris in Houston. Selling off some assets may strengthen the power companies' balance sheets, but it's still unclear whether this will be enough to stave off a power-capacity shortage in the next...
...looks like a teenager slouching in the back of sex-ed class?but he's an empire builder emblematic of China's growing entrepreneurial class. His company, headquartered in the industrial city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, is China's only major government- licensed erotica manufacturer. The plant daily pumps out some 10,000 sex toys destined for bedroom drawers worldwide, but Wu and his Japanese venture partner have grander plans: a $12 million investment in a new factory that could triple Loves' production and push sales past $100 million...