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Renewable Energy: As solar and wind-turbine technology improve, it will become cheaper and easier for homeowners to provide much of their own electricity. The truly dedicated off-gridder will try to use both solar and wind, as the two energy sources are complementary - when the sun isn't shining, the wind often blows and vice versa. The good news is that Congress passed an extension to the production tax credits for wind and solar power in the recent economic bailout package, which will make installing your own electrical supply cheaper going forward...
...late last summer my brother—despite having played only pick-up games of touch football, despite being built a lot like Stephen Crane, despite a congenital wussiness—decided to become the kicker for our high school’s varsity football team. As a senior gridder, he was assigned his very own cheerleader. Her name, according to the posters she scotch-taped to my brother’s mirror, is Shelli. According to age-old tradition, she was obliged to decorate my brother’s bedroom before the big Thanksgiving Day game against the Barnstable...
...defeated in '82 2. German President Johannes, who has asked forgiveness for the Holocaust 3. Follower of Lenin or Stalin? 4. New Reform Party chairman Pat 5. Russia is restoring its ties with this group 6. Ab __ (from the beginning) 7. He bolted his party 8. Gridder turned pol 9. "The __" (what Bush calls the Texas legislature) 10. Friedrich, the likely new head of Germany's C.D.U. 13. Wispy clouds 19. According to 21. Punch-in-the-gut reaction 22. Detached, in mus. 23. Drug smuggler's unit 24. Not "fer" 25. Cast out 28. Partner of Howard and Howard...
...individual awards also flooded in for the players. Harvard has the possibility of having three graduating seniors play professional football this fall. The last time any Crimson gridder played football for money...
...never been more clear that Harvard and the NFL have nothing in common except Pat McInally (the former Harvard gridder who played with the Cincinnati Bengals). Harvard's defiance of the ways of the nation has already forced many students to miss the inauguration of the President of the United States. Worse, it has forced many to forego that most American of rituals--the Super Bowl...