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...blackout--called a black start--involves much more than just flipping a switch. Power-generating units have to be brought online one at a time. If one power plant were brought up with all of Toledo waiting with its air conditioners in the on position, it would just shut down again. So technicians have to carve up cities into electrically isolated pieces and bring each neighborhood back up one by one in bite-size chunks that the system can handle. As they build more and more islands, they can start to string them together, but try to move too fast...
...vividly yesterday, testifying that the officer punched him in the face with closed fists, held him by the throat with one hand while striking him with the other and threw him unprovoked across the room into a bench. Trombly said Byrne broke his jaw, resulting in its being wired shut for six weeks...
Those charges were dropped for lack of evidence about a month later—but an investigation was soon launched into Trombly’s allegation that Byrne had repeatedly struck him in the police station, producing a broken jaw which remained wired shut for almost a month...
...worm—a specific type of virus written to propagate as quickly as possible—is known as the W32.Lovesan or W32.Blaster and was first noticed on campus on Monday. It makes itself known on a computer by displaying error messages and forcing a machine to shut down...
Just a day after its disclosure, a Pentagon proposal to run a terrorism futures--trading market was shut down after it met with bipartisan derision. A letter sent by Democrats to John Poindexter, the program's architect, said such a market, which would have allowed people to speculate on terrorist strikes, assassinations and coups, was "wasteful and absurd." Poindexter is expected to leave his Pentagon post in the wake of the controversy, but we may not have heard the last of the plan. "The p.r. has been bad," says George Neumann, a University of Iowa economics professor. "But people...