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...That, in essence, is the concept behind the Medicare plan Texas Governor George W. Bush unveiled last week. But it is also the basic approach behind a bipartisan plan that has been languishing on Capitol Hill for more than a year. And it was the notion Newt Gingrich put forward in 1995 when he was House Speaker, setting up the political standoff that produced that year's infamous government shutdowns...
...time, came up with a plan called the Gas Bank, to buy up reserves of natural gas, then package them for sale, with various prices and conditions for different customers. When electricity markets deregulated a few years ago, the company did the same. It's the oldest concept in business: buy low, sell high...
...company's bandwidth trading exchange. They also stress that pushing digital signals through pipe is a world away from routing natural gas. Although there is plenty of cable across the country, carriers are not set up to mix and match access to it. "It's a very, very difficult concept," says Nolles. Even the Blockbuster venture is risky: technology aside, there is also the highly political question of digital rights. How do you satisfy Hollywood that its content is secure...
...called a political cartographer. That's how best to describe someone who wandered through Carthage, Tenn., sketching Al Gore's hometown and interviewing his boyhood friends. The result is, as he puts it, "a memoir in the shape of a map." It's part geography, part story--a concept he created two years ago when he drew a map for his family at Christmas. That one was a tribute to his stepmother's minivan. The gift was a big hit, and he's been mapping ever since...
...Thomas was on deck brainstorming with a colleague about how to help businesses take advantage of the Internet. Both men suddenly realized no one was monitoring copyright violations on the Net and that as a result corporations were losing millions of dollars in revenue. That led them to the concept for Cyveillance, a sort of dotcom Web sleuth founded in 1997, which uses its proprietary NetSapien Technology to scour the Net for misuse of brand names, copyright infringements and clues as to what impact Web activity is having on a corporation's business. Some Cyveillance findings: Disney and Barbie...