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Washington, D.C., May 27, 2025. Just four months into his first term, President Scott P. Brown faces what is rapidly becoming a severe financial crisis, with the collapse yesterday of yet another Stable Wind Farm Trust. The failed institution, Magna-SWIFT, is the largest thus far, with over $90 billion in assets. Rumors also continued to swirl about the condition of the Houston Power House, one of the nation’s largest clearinghouses specializing in weather and power derivatives. Experts warned that a major clearinghouse failure could have devastating implications...

Author: By Jeremy C. Stein | Title: The Next Financial Crisis | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...something that we would say in a raised voice. Dickens used it quintessentially when the Ghost of Christmas Present bellows, “Come In! And know me better, man!” as did Orwell when he described the chanting of the sheep in “Animal Farm.” However, in simple dialogue we rarely need it. But because the practice of using exclamation points in casual e-mail and text conversations has become so common, now, not adding this punctuation mark to the end of a message makes it seem sullen and ungrateful. Simply ending...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Missing the Point | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

Those who have ever wanted a unique view of the sea need not look farther than Cape Cod. Instead of the standard view of ocean and sand, Cape Cod will soon be the site of the first offshore wind farm, Cape Wind: an ambitious project to build wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. On April 28, Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar approved the project, a sign of the Obama administration’s support of alternative energy. We applaud this move—it shows a commitment to move away from fossil fuels, a priority that supersedes any of the drawbacks...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Wind in the Sails | 5/5/2010 | See Source »

...Energy Information Administration, to rise nearly 26 percent by 2030. In my class on thermodynamics last semester, fuel-cell technology received a lot of attention, and I’ve been flagged down countless times by insistent, blue-shirted activists who solicit signatures for the proposed wind farm on Nantucket Sound. However, there is another technology being embraced by the proponents of green technology and by evolving government policy, that is making headlines. It generates no carbon dioxide, its marginal cost of production is extremely low, and it has proven reliable. It’s nuclear...

Author: By Karin M. Jentoft | Title: Going Green, Going Nuclear | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

Sadly, the Age Gouda informed the crowd that he doesn’t give tours of his factory; there is however a DVD available at his farm that showcases the entire cheese-making process...

Author: By Ellen M. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cheese Cheese Cheese | 4/21/2010 | See Source »

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