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...guess what? About half the power plants in California, and a quarter of them nationwide, are fueled by natural gas. A price increase in one commodity just triggers another elsewhere. Some natural-gas providers have even balked at selling to the cash-strapped utilities. Governor Gray Davis, who has been criticized for acting too slowly, admits that "deregulation is broken and needs to be fixed...
...Last week New York's mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, proposed doing just that, calling on the city to add a sixth day of school for nearly 84,000 struggling students. California's Governor Gray Davis made a similar move last month when he asked his state to extend its school year by 30 days to give 1 million middle schoolers an extra six weeks of class to help pull up sagging test scores. On the local level, schools across the country are extending the hours students spend in their clutches far beyond the typical seven-hour school...
...Marshall Moriarty, an attorney at Ropes and Gray in Boston, who represents Harvard in the case along with Deputy General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano, also would not comment on the ongoing litigation...
...that's somewhere between I-haven't-gotten-around-to-grooming-myself-lately and I'm-growing-a-beard-as-part-of-a-midlife-change. As he leaves the hotel I think, wow, alternative rock has gotten a little old. Stipe's not-grooming/sort-of-beard thing is brown and gray, more on the gray side. And of course everyone knows that R.E.M.'s drummer has retired from touring, leaving the longtime foursome to go on as a threesome. I've always liked and admired R.E.M., but you know a musical genre's aging when your band is losing members...
...slowdown is also a reminder of the need to constantly network inside and outside your company. "Time and again people work very hard and are good at what they do but they don't know anybody," says John Challenger, CEO of Challenger Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm. "They put their head down and spend no time developing social capital. When they're let go, they have a hard time finding...