Exelon Corp. announced Saturday that it plans to join the FutureGen Alliance, an organization developing an experimental clean-coal power plant in eastern Illinois. The support from one of the nation’s largest power generators is an encouraging sign that…

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Four decades ago, when Sid Erwin began his career as an inspector at the Idaho Power Co., a string of new hydroelectric plants was pumping out power faster than locals could buy it. Soon enough, Erwin recalls, the utility began sending representatives to…

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Idaho’s powerful policies

President Obama says he’s all about creating jobs, but that’s easier said than done. Nearly a year ago, the federal government gave states a big pot of money to pay employers in the public, private and nonprofit sectors to hire low-income parents. The program…

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Employers wanted: Federal funds up for grabs

The wine industry received sobering news this week: California shipments dropped in 2009 for the first time in 16 years. Sales figures from Woodside wine research firm Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates show that consumption is up 2.1 percent nationally, but…

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State wine shipments down; first time since ’93

Due to arrive today SHIPFROMPORTRhl AgilitasPortland, Ore.OAK Due to depart today SHIPTOPORTYM WealthBusan, South KoreaOAK Guang Dong BridgeKobe, JapanOAK Source: San Francisco Marine…

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Ship traffic for Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010

One week after the calamitous earthquake struck, two engineers from a San Francisco nonprofit, Inveneo, landed in Port-au-Prince with 1,500 pounds of high-tech equipment packed in 42 boxes. Their job: piecing together critical parts of Haiti’s communications…

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Inveneo uses Wi-Fi to help in Haiti

For Netflix Inc., revenue is literally streaming in. The Los Gatos firm that disrupted the video rental store industry with a DVD-by-mail service posted a blockbuster earnings report last week that sent its stock price to an all-time high. More importantly,…

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Among the roughly 2,500 vintage vehicles offered at the collector-car auctions that began last week in Arizona were one-off design studies by automakers, race cars that soldiered through international events and vehicles once owned by celebrities. But it’s…

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Kitchen Sink Cadillac, other dream cars

For 15 years, Tokyo taxi driver Kiyomi Hashimoto has been a loyal Toyota man. Not once has he considered changing brands or even the possibility of car problems. But now, sitting in his black Prius, pondering the news of Toyota’s recent U.S. recall, there…

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Toyota’s reputation may suffer in Japan, too

It is late afternoon on a Friday in September, and Kevin Plank is standing on the edge of the Auburn University football team’s practice field, surrounded by top executives from Under Armour, the sports clothing and footwear company he invented. While the…

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As captain of England’s national team, John Terry is used to appearing in the sports pages. But on Saturday, his picture was splashed across the front pages of Britain’s newspapers, and not because of his skill on the field. A High Court judge lifted a court…

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UK court lifts media ban on soccer star’s life

Argentina’s central bank President Martin Redrado resigned last night after a standoff with the government over its plan to use $6.6 billion in reserves to pay debt due this year.

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China halted planned military exchanges with the U.S. and said it will punish companies involved in a Pentagon plan to sell weapons worth $6.4 billion to Taiwan.

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The four college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store on a breezy Monday afternoon, bought a few items, then sat down at the “whites only” lunch counter _ and sparked a wave of civil rights protest that changed America. Violating a social…

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Protesters reflect on success of 1960s sit-ins

With the clock ticking toward a massive, automatic tax increase at the end of this year, President Obama tomorrow will launch a political battle over who will pay higher taxes and who won’t. Without action, all the Bush-era tax cuts…

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Expiration of tax cuts spurs hard decisions