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Many blame California's woes on the profit-mongering generators themselves, for colluding to drive up the price of electricity, a charge they vehemently deny. The Federal Government, which recently forced generators to keep selling power to the utilities despite their precarious balance sheet, could impose a wholesale-price cap. But that might discourage much-needed investment in new plants and transmission lines. California might allow the utilities to raise cash by issuing bonds that customers would pay for over time, or form its own power authority to build new plants...
This has led the Salt Institute, a non-profit association of salt producers, to claim that the DASH diet produced most of the effect and that efforts to combat hypertension should focus on that, rather than on reduction of salt intake...
...Neill left government after Ford lost in 1976 and spent 23 years turning cyclical smokestack companies into sturdy profit centers. He first worked his way up the executive ranks of International Paper by boosting the quality of its products, shutting down marginal plants and investing heavily in others. While working at IP in the dark days of the late 1970s, O'Neill made a habit of visiting the plants of competitors overseas that were stealing market share, and then bringing back ways to beat them at their own game. In the late 1980s, he took over as CEO of Alcoa...
...wrote last year that "there is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve learning." But because he now sees the technology as "the only way to reach everybody," Bennett has changed his mind. He announced last week that he will lead the nation's first for-profit online elementary and secondary school, called K12, that will begin enrolling students in grades K-2 next fall and will eventually have students in every grade. Enrollees can download course material and exchange e-mail messages with a teacher. Bennett, who refers to himself as K12's "principal," has recruited...
...that those teenagers who do have sex after they?ve taken a pledge were less likely to use contraception than those who?d never taken a pledge," heightening that group's risk of contracting HIV and other STDs, says Dr. Jacqueline Darroch of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit family planning research organization. "While there is good news in this study showing that association with abstinence groups does have a strong effect on some teenagers, there is certainly no reason to think that an abstinence pledge is all one needs to help adolescents deal with their sexuality and sexual...