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Once touted as an environmental and economic cure-all, corn ethanol has had a rough year. The collapse in grain and oil prices, preceded by overinvestment in refineries over the past few years, badly hurt ethanol producers. Meanwhile, environmentalists have steadily chipped away at ethanol's green credentials. Far from being better for the planet than gasoline, many scientists now argue that ethanol actually has a sizable carbon footprint, because when farmers in the U.S. use their land to grow corn for fuel rather than food, farmers in the developing world end up cutting down more forests to pick...
...room a few weeks ago. Ambulance bill: $959. Hospital bill: $13,830. Follow-up with a personal physician and specialist: $463. Total: $15,252 for a six-hour, non-life-threatening situation that was diagnosed incorrectly in the emergency room. No wonder the country is in trouble. Frugality cannot cure this type of debt, and common situations like this one cannot be ignored. Jean Dennis, WESTMINSTER, COLO...
...President Obama deploys his many czars and task forces, he should remember that no amount of IQ can cure the human condition. Like Republicans, Democrats are prone to overemphasize their favorite facts and theories, to gloss over contradictory data, to skew their analysis to match their values. That doesn't make them dumb people or bad people. It just makes them people...
...believe we will find a cure, and I hope it will be soon. In a way, it's not about me necessarily getting better. I think that the idea behind any kind of service is that you hope that its impact will outlive you anyway, whether it happens in your lifetime or after. The fact that it happened at all is terrific. If it had something to do with your efforts, great...
...you’re actually part of some scene). While the grey slate tables and metal barstools work well with the overall minimalist aesthetic, comfortable is not the adjective that immediately comes to mind—the banquettes against one wall are so rigid they’d cure scoliosis. With a younger, self-consciously cool crowd and sleek, provocative décor, this bar-restaurant hybrid gestures strongly towards urban chic. “I don’t feel like I’m in the middle of Harvard Square,” described one diner, dreaming...