But many of the 3 million customers of this solid New England outfit might be surprised to know that this utility is a subsidiary of U.K.-based National Grid Transco.

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Gerald Draper and his colleagues at the University of Oxford, and John Swanson of National Grid Transco, a power-transmission company, have looked at the distribution of childhood cancer along the power lines of the national electricity grid in England and Wales.

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Like National Grid Transco (nyse: NGG - news - people ), the 10 other companies listed below are headquartered outside the U.S. but generate at least 15% of their revenues on our shores, which means that they are likely to benefit when the U.S. economy gets back on track.

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