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Scenery isn't the only concern. Noise and light pollution often enliven the debate. Kelly Alexander, who lives about 500 yds. from two turbines in northern Michigan, watched his property value drop from $102,000 in 1999 to $96,000 in 2002. The tax assessor's form attributed the markdown to "noise from two wind generating systems." Alexander says when the rotors catch the sun at particular angles, a flickering light permeates his house. Indeed, it isn't easy to sell a house that sits near a turbine. Julie and Bart Thiry of Kewaunee County, Wis., who live...
...those efforts have stalled. One reason is that some havens now feel they are being discriminated against; while they have started to clean up their acts, they argue, places like Switzerland and Delaware have not. "The tables have turned," says Ian Kelly, the Isle of Man's income-tax assessor. "The problem for us is that we see larger jurisdictions doing the very things we are attacked for, and nobody brings them to account." If the Isle of Man did the sort of marketing that some in Delaware do, he tells Time, "it would make headlines in the newspapers." That...
...counterterrorism efforts depends on what grading scale they use. Darker judgments come from those who compare Saudi Arabia unfavorably with other American allies. Kinder pronouncements are made by those whose expectations are tempered by the reality that this is a country named for a family. Another factor is the assessor's rank; top-level officials commenting on the record tend to be more generous than hands-on investigators speaking privately. Armitage has said that since May 12, "cooperation on things that are internal to Saudi Arabia has been magnificent." On the other hand, a top Administration counterterrorism official told TIME...
Satisfied that the friendly service lives up to its advertising, FM’s friendliness assessor prepares to head back to the impersonal environs of Harvard Square. Before FM departs, a complimentary cup of the Eating Place’s finest coffee is brought out, an offer to wrap the remains of a sub is made and a lid for the coffee cup is presented with much ceremony. The friendliness assessor is glad she came—but even better, so is Petros...
...never tires halfway through a stack of essays. The upshot: in pretrial tests, E-Rater and a human reader were just as likely to agree as were two readers. "It's not intended to judge a person's creativity," says Darrell Laham, co-developer of the Intelligent Essay Assessor, a computer-grading system similar to E-Rater. "It's to give students a chance to construct a response instead of just pointing at a bubble...