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...Race Factor...
Bill O'Reilly Host of The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News anchor and author of the memoir A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity...
...America: of course it's about race too. After Obama won, there was talk of a "Huxtable effect"--the idea that pop-cultural portrayals of African Americans from The Cosby Show to 24's David Palmer readied white America for a black President. But maybe there's an opposite factor at work here too--the 50 Cent effect. The impact of the Obamas comes partly from the unspoken contrast to a decades-old media archive of images of black people as problems or threats, from news to cop shows to hip-hop. Broken families, perp walks, AKs and Cristal...
Then there's the height factor. Residential wind turbines are tall enough to potentially irritate neighbors and require reams of paperwork, especially for the 60 million Americans who belong to a community association. And even though many of the assumptions about small wind turbines aren't true - they don't make much noise, and the AWEA notes that sliding glass doors are a bigger risk to birds than residential wind turbines are - not everyone wants to fight the bureaucratic battles. "It can take a lot of court cases for a turbine owner just to be sure...
...Harvard, polo is not an elitist sport. Money or experience is not a limiting factor if you have the dedication,” team member J.P. Stilz ’11 said. “I think there is nothing less elitist than cleaning up horse crap...