Word: plugged
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...haven't stumbled upon one of those places in the minivan, children strapped in behind you in those church pews--or maybe in a roadster, top down, the wind laughing through the sparse seedlings of your new plug-a-rug--and wondered how a nowhere burg like Dalton, Ga., comes to carpet the planet. Or how a look-fast town, a highway blur, becomes the Garlic Capital (Gilroy, Calif.) or the Storm-Watching Capital (Bandon, Ore.) of the universe (or so they claim...
MOSCOW: Mir, Russia's overworked and underfinanced space station, may be landing near you soon. Russian space officials, desperately short on cash, admit that they may have to pull the plug (this time deliberately) on the station as early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman Anatoly Tkachyov, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending...
...first signs were not auspicious. Just before Clinton left the U.S., Beijing revoked the visas of three Radio Free Asia journalists who had planned to accompany his entourage. The Chinese also pulled the plug on a highly publicized (and relatively racy) Shanghai opera that was due to play New York City next week. More bad headlines came after Clinton arrived in the ancient capital of Xian, when a Hong Kong-based human-rights group reported that some local dissidents had been detained to ensure a smooth visit for Clinton. (National Security Adviser Sandy Berger complained that China was acting...
Homes might soon be equipped with their own generators, thanks to fuel-cell technology, which promises to be cheaper and less polluting than today's power plants. Fuel cells use an electrochemical process without combustion to convert fuel into electricity. Plug Power demonstrated the first home model in Latham, N.Y., last week. The units should be available to consumers within two years for $3,000 to $5,000, and could shave power bills...
...other good reasons to install Windows 98, which Crosby lays out on my website this week, at time.com I was especially looking forward to the operating system's support for the so-called Universal Serial Bus--a thin socket that comes on most newer computers and allows you to plug in a variety of peripherals (scanners, mice, etc.) with fewer hassles. Microsoft lent me a new eyeball-size digital camera to try out the feature. Alas, my computer failed to recognize, let alone run, the USB device. I suppose that will get fixed in Windows...