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...reasoning goes about like this: think of some of this year's biggest business stories--AOL's merging with Time Warner, Vivendi's acquiring Seagram, Napster's hijacking the music industry. They are all, in some sense, about devising more and creative ways to suck up bandwidth. Words, music, video, interactive TV--they're all data that have to go through the electronic plumbing of the network...
...computers and high-tech equipment suck up more power--they now account for close to 10% of all consumption--electricity providers can barely keep up. Summer electricity demand in the U.S. has jumped 23% since 1992, while capacity has risen only 6%, so the industry's emergency-reserve capacity has slipped. With communities fighting new construction, very few major power plants have been built in the past 20 years. Yet by one Energy Department estimate, the country needs 1,000 new plants in the next two decades. As Steve Fleishman, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, notes, "The country underinvested...
...really? Spy's rarefied, Manhattan-centric humor wouldn't be likely to find a mass audience online, but the cheap, egalitarian Web has long been a haven for wisenheimers: the cutting commentary of Suck www.suck.com) the deadpan fake-newspaper Onion www.theonion.com and the esoteric wit of McSweeney's www.mcsweeneys.net) More recently, old media have tried to get Blair Witch-y with sites like Time Warner's Entertaindom www.entertaindom.com) whose flashy but lame Hollywood spoofs prove the rule that online humor is funny in inverse proportion to its budget. And even in the Web's grownup days of corporate sites...
...gazing longingly at the bright red cups and party straws for a week, I took the plunge. Coke slurpees became our excuse--all summer--to step out of the office. I happily and gleefully slurped my way through the afternoon, nothing saddening me more than the tell-tale flavorless suck telling me: You have struck slush...
...think the year off is one of the best things that has ever happened to me." Levine says. "I feel like I view things differently. It's important not to let school suck you in like a vacuum and I feel like I have some perspective...