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...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...
Trial lawyers insist that the role they play is a vital one. The ability to sue for injuries is a basic American right, they say, one that supporters of tort reform are scheming to take away. "[Tort reform] is no more than a code to close the courthouse down to poor and middle-class people," says Jamail. "You don't see these corporations being tentative or bashful about running to the courthouse against each other or against individuals who don't pay their bills...
...mobility. "If you are a successful start-up in Bordeaux or Toulouse in the technology field," says economist and author Alain Minc, "the question for the boss is whether to stay in Toulouse or move to London, not Paris. Formerly, they had to go to Paris to be close to the banks and have a decent work force." "France no longer passes through Paris but through Alsace, Provence, Brittany," says journalist Yannick Le Bourdonnec, author of a book on the regional trend. "Paris no longer imposes itself on the image of France...
Kerns: The No. 1 issue for me is the cost of skilled labor. There is a lack of talent for companies big and small in the technology area. Universities are not coming close to filling demand. As a result, wages are inflating, and we're going overseas to find talent. We need to create incentives to retrain the existing low-skilled work force and entice students to pursue education in these fields. That might mean introducing a more aggressive student-loan program or creating co-ops with companies to guarantee summer jobs to help students pay for loans...
...Unable to recognize close friends and family...