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...culprit was deregulation, which, students of the telephone and airline industries will tell you, doesn't always go according to plan. When states started breaking up one of the last subsidized monopolies a few years back, they hoped to usher in a wave of competition that would lower prices, improve service and increase the system's reliability. Newly liberated customers would be able to choose from a host of suppliers, some of whom generated the power while others just delivered...
...civilization, and then CBS just keeps raking in the ratings for a show whose dominant theme seems to be 'You don't need soap, America! Look at us! Soap-free for almost three weeks and we're surviving just fine!' This is just not the way we wanted to usher in what we thought had the potential to be a maniacally germ-phobic new century...
...force that drove the inflationary spasm, sometimes tagged with the Greek letter lambda after its designation in Einstein's general-relativity equations, might not have subsided altogether back when the inflationary hiccup ended. Instead, it might still be there, lurking in empty space and urging expansion along, like an usher politely shooing playgoers back into the theater at intermission's end. Some observations of exploding stars in distant galaxies suggest the presence of just such an ongoing inflationary impulse. If so, the tug-of-war over the future of the universe involves not only expansion and gravitational braking but also...
...Tuesday, 4 p.m., Harvard Square, red line. The biggest beat in Boston subways thumps from an R. Kelley CD. With warmth and passion the musician cries, "A city of justice, a city of love, a city of peace, for everyone of us..." Pumla (a.k.a. "Usher"), a graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin, moved to the United States from South Africa seven years ago. During the daytime he studies at the Berklee College of Music, and "whenever there's a chance" he comes down to the Harvard Square T stop to practice and rehearse. Only 22 years-old, Pumla frets...
...NIKKI USHER...