Their first test in October 2007 was a success: An all-electric car plugged in at the University of Delaware and rigged with communication software responded to a signal from PJM for a sudden burst of power to help balance supply and demand on the grid.

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The Western tourists trapped in Khorog last week managed to call on their embassies for help only because two of them had roaming smartphones that caught a mobile-phone signal from neighboring Afghanistan, they said.

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