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...must contest some of his findings. He states, "The median farmer's net worth is five times the median American's." Of course it is--farmers own tons of acres; but let's see you try to operate your business when all that net worth is tied up in land. In addition, he claims, "the biofuel boom is also jacking up the price of grain." Yet the price of corn has fallen at least 50% since its peak. Revising the bill is a good idea, but in doing so, we must realize that we will make food more expensive, since...
Kids, dogs and mother-in-law humor: it's as if the Obamas are launching an early '60s sitcom before our eyes. With good reason: the First Family--elect may represent a big social shift, but their retro, TV Land ordinariness helped get America comfortable with Dad. Quipping with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft, Barack and Michelle echoed not J.F.K. and Jackie but rather Rob and Laura Petrie--she, the amiably needling supporter; he, the self-deprecatingly put-upon hubby joking about Michelle's asking him to take the girls to school the morning after the election. This fall, on every...
...They added 51,000 acres of tracts near Arches, Dinosaur and Canyonlands without telling us about it.' CORDELL ROY, Utah's chief park-service administrator, blasting the Bureau of Land Management for its plans to auction land near the iconic Arches National Park for oil and gas exploration...
...much energy as small wind power, which is defined as turbines that have a capacity of 100 kW or less (though most household turbines will produce 10 kW at most). That's partly because residential wind turbines require space and sky - at least half an acre of open land - to get access to consistent winds. Still, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), some 15 million homes in the U.S. fit that definition - and small turbines, unlike large wind farms, can be productive in weaker breezes, which puts more of the country into play, though the best areas...
...accommodate new research facilities. “Cambridge has made a real effort to become a biotech capital of the world, and it has been successful in doing that,” Seidel said. The city council is also considering the sale of 1.2 million square feet of land to Alexandria Real Estate for another new lab space, Seidel said. Pfizer’s new lab will be an addition to the company’s Research Technology Center, founded locally in 1999. Its research will focus on endocrine and cardiac research. It’s counterpart in England will...