:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 8.14.2003 ::
:: RE blackouts ::
From a Reuters report:
Blackout Hits Parts of Eastern U.S., Canada
Thu August 14, 2003 05:41 PM ET
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK - An overload caused a massive power outage across swaths of the eastern United States and Canada on Thursday, leaving much of New York, Detroit, Toronto and Ottawa without electricity.
"We have no indication that there is any terrorism involved," said Bryan Lee, a spokesman for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington.
Power outages were reported in the New York metropolitan area, Detroit and Cleveland as well as in Toronto and Ottawa, starting shortly after 4:00 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT), witnesses said.
The blackout was caused by a failure at a Manhattan power plant that destabilized the power grid as far as Canada, Lee said.
ALSO:
From MSNBC.com:
How the U.S. power system works
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