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...1990s, when utilities built plants that burn cleaner natural gas. Back then, natural gas, which cost a quarter what it does today, was viewed as the bankable alternative souce for electricity generation. Now, coal is the darling. More than 120 new plants have been proposed and domestic and international demand are soaring...
...turned an already skeptical world public against nuclear energy. Moreover, oil as cheap as $10 per barrel in the 1990s destroyed its economic rationale. But times have changed. Lessening energy dependence on unstable Middle Eastern and other countries is now a government priority in many countries. And with worldwide demand for energy rising sharply, oil prices spiking at more than $60/bbl and fears growing among the public at large about the lasting impact of greenhouse gases on the environment, the outlook for nuclear today is a lot more radiant...
...home cooks can now take advantage of the caramel, crunchy tang of large-crystal, raw-cane demerara from Malawi or the toffee-infused taste of dark, sticky muscovado from Mauritius. Simon Cutts, bulk-foods manager for the Wild Oats national specialty chain of natural-food stores, says the consumer demand for these sugars mirrors the organic-food boom, with sales growing at a rate of 25% a year. "Once customers taste these sugars," he says, "they find it shocking to go back to the plain white stuff...
...Social Analysis 72 out in the cold. By instituting a progressive tax to redress the social costs of drug use, the government can turn the war on drugs into money for its coffers. Profits will increase over time, since studies show that addiction leads to a highly inelastic demand curve. Imagine all the tax money that would be saved with all the newly found time on the hands of the Harvard University Police Department—free to double its force for the next Lamont party.There is only one problem. As Freakonomist, University of Chicago professor Stephen Levitt has pointed...
...those tracks, as blissful as they may be, were only the honeymoon for the First Couple of Cartoon RappersL it is “The Mouse and the Mask” that finally meets the demand for an extended alliance between the hottest producer and rapper the underground has to offer...