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...Mitsuo Utsumi wanted to combine leisure and work in his retirement years, and farm living was the formula he found. After 30 years at Roche, the salaryman and his wife Setsuko moved back to Kasegawa City in central Japan three years ago to build their own farm, where they grow figs. "This was my dream," says 58-year-old Utsumi, happily sweltering inside one of his two greenhouses. "I wanted to establish a way to live when I retired, not just survive off a pension." As retirements go, it's not that retiring?Utsumi often puts in full days that...
Many European countries are way ahead of the U.S. on the wind front. Germany alone produces more than a third of the world's 47 MW of wind energy. This June, when a wind farm in Ceredigion, Wales, came online, Britain became one of eight nations producing more than 1 billion watts--or a gigawatt--of wind-generated electricity. "We're in an exponential growth phase," says Alison Hill of the British Wind Energy Association. "It has taken us 14 years to get our first gig. It'll take 14 months to get our second...
...Golisano, the billionaire founder of Paychex Inc., is leading the fight against a plan to build hundreds of turbines in the west of the state, near the Great Lakes. And an odd alliance of environmentalists, oil and gas interests and ranchers has emerged to legally thwart a wind farm planned for the Flint Hills of Kansas, one of the last pristine tallgrass prairies in the U.S. About 100 local antiwind groups have emerged in Germany, and in France, which has just 440 wind farms but hopes to operate 7,000 by 2010, such groups have banded together to form...
Randall Swisher, executive director of the American Wind Energy Association, says complaints about noise from turbines are grossly exaggerated. "If you ever visit a wind farm," he says, "you will notice that the wind often makes more noise than the turbine." Still, Invenergy, the firm that will develop Mackinaw Power's part of the western Michigan initiative, often pays homeowners who live near its turbines $800 to $1,000 a year in compensation, says Invenergy's senior development manager, Joel Link. As for the putative threat to scenery posed by towering turbines, wind-power supporters point out that tourists often...
CHARGED. STACY SIMS, 19, JAMIE UNDERWOOD, 27, and JENNIFER WILSON, 26, with the murders of six Mexican immigrant farm workers; in Tifton, Ga. The alleged killers used baseball bats and guns in the attacks, described by one official as "some of the most vicious" in the state's history. Sims and Underwood were also charged with rape in connection with another attack on immigrants. Some 20 homes in nearby Hispanic communities have been invaded in recent months, and officials say these suspects may be part of a gang targeting workers who, without papers to open bank accounts, carry large amounts...