Another danger is that taxing the Internet might drive e-commerce out of the country.

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Last week, Penguin announced a pilot program to allow public libraries in New York City and Brooklyn to lend out its e-books via 3M's Cloud Drive service.

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Among the most spectacular examples of bad judgment: Sequoia Capital 's seeming refusal to distribute any of its 8 million shares of Etoys, the e-tailer that was going to drive Toys "R" Us out of business.

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There are many nontrivial ancillary challenges too, especially the secondary procedure of actually getting the energy out of the reactor into a useful form, i.e. heat to drive steam-turbines as with all other kinds of thermal power stations, to generate electricity.

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