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...Breeze!" What Wyeth will paint next is what currently worries him most. But winter is the season that best inspires him, and he is full in the process of making the watercolors that are the harbingers of his temperas. He bundles up in boots, a turtleneck, a ratty forest-green hacking jacket with a ragged velvet collar, and a shaggy sheepskin coat. He grabs his watercolor kit, clucks at his dogs to follow, and lopes off across the snow-spotted fields. When he finds what he wants, he plunks right down in the slush and goes to work with...
...rest of Obama's stimulus will be New Deal-style government spending on needed goods and services, often with modern twists. That means smart meters and weatherization programs to prevent wasting energy; transmission lines and solar panels to promote alternative energy; green school buildings and sewage-treatment plants; wetlands restoration in the Everglades and coastal Louisiana; repairs for aging dams, bridges and airports - plus broadband networks, research, job training and, as Obama has suggested, anything else that seems like a good idea. This is an ideal time for the government to spend money on infrastructure, because labor and equipment...
...ideal focus of infrastructure spending would be green projects that help reduce our addiction to fossil fuels, but there's only so much of that ready to go. Nathaniel Keohane of the Environmental Defense Fund started ticking off his wish list in an interview: $1 billion for homeowners to install energy-efficient windows, $750 million for truckers to use fuel-efficient equipment, $600 million for smart boiler controls. "Still $998 billion to go," he said with a sigh. "Really, I spent time on this, and it's a reach to get to $100 billion." Obama and his team are starting...
...simply passes cash to the states according to the usual formulas - and it will unless Obama intervenes - America is in for yet another festival of asphalt. There is even talk of waiving the regular cost-sharing requirements for local and state governments, an excellent way to make sure they green-light oinkers they would never pay for themselves. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...sour soup), and this affinity for taste-bud workouts has carried over to trendy drinks. The countless drink stands that line Taiwanese streets flood the thirsty soul with endless variations of bubble teas, a.k.a. hot or cold teas with chewy tapioca balls and tropical juice blends. One popular combo, green tea with passion fruit, tapioca pearls and chewy coconut cubes, helps explain why 85°C's next coffee innovations will use panna cotta and fresh fruit...