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...Tuesday afternoon, House Democrats gathered at a filling station conveniently located near Capitol Hill and did their best to jump in. House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt unveiled a competing, "balanced" energy program (yes, that's the same word Bush uses to describe his) that "will help families and businesses cut energy costs...
...Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham acknowledges that the new policy won't do much now, but he insists that those short-term issues will be addressed "on a separate track." His department is investigating reports that gas-station owners have been told to expect $3-a-gal. prices this summer. Those rumors, Abraham suggests, might be evidence of price gouging. "Rumors become self-fulfilling prophecies," he says...
...individual came into the station to report that cash had been stolen from him at Sanders Theatre...
...sense, what Ford proposes is Ford Motor's second revolution. Some of his ideals are eerily similar to those of his great-grandfather, an environmentalist and pre-eminent bird watcher who pioneered the assembly line, the service station and, above all, the then heretical notion of a working wage. (And yes, the founder was also an anti-Semite and a union-busting tyrant who spied on his workers.) Henry Ford reinvented manufacturing and changed the world. Bill Ford wants to go Henry one better by embracing the notion of sustainability, or the idea that you can make things without damaging...
What was this contraption? I puzzled over its presence for months, asking anyone willing to look up. I finally got my answer from a city worker. The box was a small relay station designed to send signals to and from wireless modems. It had landed outside my bedroom courtesy of Metricom's Ricochet network. The California-based company is blanketing more than a dozen U.S. cities with pole-top radio transceivers strategically positioned every five to 10 blocks so we can send e-mail, visit websites and otherwise reach out and touch the Internet--wirelessly--anytime, anyplace...