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...time over the next several years. Altogether, the module and its science gear would have been too heavy to launch. The current space-station crew led by Bill Shepherd, the American commander, and Yuri Gidzeno and Sergei Krikalev, his Russian crewmates, will use the extra space for storage...
...good news is that the days of teachers' having to navigate through error-strewn, out-of-date texts--and of kids' having to lug 30-lb. book bags--are almost over. The major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from now the visual resolution of handheld text devices...
...keep the juice flowing but there's nothing left to squeeze? That's the thorny problem facing New York City as it girds for a summer that could potentially see rolling blackouts like California's. To stave off a meltdown in June, the city needs to have an extra 400 megawatts of electricity (enough to power 400,000 homes) available. But with all of New York's red tape, you can barely get a new power plant running in six years, let alone six months...
...consumers, Bush's laissez-faire approach is likely to be painful. The new President backs hundreds of millions of dollars in extra funding for an energy-assistance program to ease the burden on the poorest Americans. For everyone else, high prices could be around for a while. The clearest indication of that came from Kenneth Lay, the chairman of Enron, the Houston-based energy giant that is the nation's largest power marketer, with a major stake in California. Last week Lay warned that California would have to resolve a "pretty much self-inflicted problem"--even if that means price...
...Only a buck? That's partly because trading was extra cautious Monday ahead of the Fed meeting Wednesday, partly because this was the kind of news that traders generally love to hear - the slenderizing cuts are designed to return the division to profitability - and partly because it wasn't much of a surprise...