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...student’s departure from an isolated cattle ranch and alfalfa farm near Death Valley, Calif., to an urban campus is, by definition, radical...
...Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, the farm at the center of this first lawsuit, became the largest wind farm in the world in October with 421 wind towers spread over 47,000 acres of scrubby ranchland 20 miles southwest of Abilene. Once a rowdy frontier cattle town, Abilene now touts itself as the wind energy capital of the world. The lawsuit has brought the city's past and present into conflict. Most of the 18 plaintiffs in the case, according to their Houston attorney Steve Thompson, work in Abilene - among them a doctor, a professor and a gym owner...
...list of accusations runs long. The production team ordered a couple to bring farm animals into their house, covering it with manure; they tied a dildo—unidentifiable to the villagers—to the arm stump of an old man; and they portrayed the community as urine-drinking savages. Pay ranged from five to 38 dollars a day; they took the money because they were poor and had no idea how their actions would be used...
...proposed a multi-prong strategy to reduce emissions but has only a rough idea of how much the entire project would cost. While some initiatives, like renovating buildings to be more energy efficient, may eventually save FAS money, others, like purchasing electricity from a wind farm, will not. Because the EAC is still assembling its plan, it cannot currently provide a firm cost estimate...
...security along with a path to citizenship for certain working immigrants. A Democratic Congress is much more likely to craft a Bush-style solution. Bush and the Democrats may well start with modest reforms like the AgJobs bill, an attempt by Senators from both parties to normalize the immigrant farm-labor economy. It stalled in the House this year...