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...years to outfits ranging from high-tech start-ups and hospitals to a Blockbuster Video store and a BP Amoco gas station. According to estimates, 10% to 20% of new power will be distributed by 2010, so it's no wonder that heavyweights like Honeywell and Ingersoll-Rand are moving into the burgeoning business. Still, Maureen Helmer, chairman of the New York State public service commission, insists that "this is just a transitional measure." Perhaps. But for utilities grappling with NIMBYism and small businesses worried about an electricity crunch, it could be a long-term remedy...
Martin's Greenspan is a better read. A former FORTUNE writer, Martin gives us a real biography, one that winds through Greenspan's geeky youth (band, glee club, math nerd) to his stint as a professional clarinet player and time spent in the inner circle of author Ayn Rand, and then to his advisory role with Presidents Nixon and Ford. Along the way we learn that Greenspan is yet another powerful political figure who was in the room but didn't inhale, and that as a child he was terrified of the movie Frankenstein. We also get plenty of quotable...
...better program? For much of the campaign, Bush had neutralized the traditional Democratic advantage on education, boasting of a Texas record that enabled him to say that he, not Gore, knows what works. Last week a Rand Corp. study called parts of Bush's record into question, noting that many of Texas' touted gains may have been the result of widespread test cramming, not actual learning. But Bush stands by his record (a Rand study earlier this year showed that by several measures Texas leads the nation) and pledges to enact the Texas testing and accountability program on a national...
...better program? For much of the campaign, Bush had neutralized the traditional Democratic advantage on education, boasting of a Texas record that enabled him to say that he, not Gore, knows what works. Last week a Rand Corp. study called parts of Bush's record into question, noting that many of Texas' touted gains may have been the result of widespread test cramming, not actual learning. But Bush stands by his record (a Rand study earlier this year showed that by several measures Texas leads the nation) and pledges to enact the Texas testing and accountability program on a national...
...these problems? The first step, say the reformers, is to change the way we think about the end. "It's not about death," says Joanne Lynn, director of the RAND Center to Improve Care of the Dying. "It's really about living with a disease that's going to kill you, about good living on the way to death. We spend as much time with our fatal illness as we spend as toddlers...