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AP - Electricity output has­dipped to its lowest point in­three years in ­href="http://iraq.livepress.co­m">Iraq, where the desert­sun is ­href="http://rising.livepress.­com">rising toward another­broiling summer and U.S.­engineers are ­href="http://winding.livepress­.com">winding down their­rebuilding of the crippled­power ­href="http://grid.livepress.co­m">grid.

AP - Ferrari's Michael Schumacher secured pole position Saturday for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, while McLaren Mercedes' Kimi Raikkonen retired from qualifying before he could complete a lap and will start from the back of the grid.

NewsFactor - Hewlett-Packard has joined forces with the Chinese government to develop the ChinaGrid, which, when finished, will be one of the world's largest grid computers with a full 15 teraflops of computing power. It will consist mostly of HP ProLiant and HP Integrity servers.

Three German ciphers unsolved since World War II are being cracked by a grid of home PCs linked online.