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...part to the push for corn-based ethanol and the skyrocketing price of food crops, U.S. farmers are planting more acres for corn than they have since World War II - including 15 million more acres last year than in 2006. Although there are measures farmers can take to limit fertilizer runoff, those changes are expensive, and there's little federal funding to support such conservation. The just-released action plan relies mostly on voluntary activities. "We need Congress to act as if this is going to get done," says Doug Daigle, a member of the task force. "The state governments...
...President Rick Kapser has said, "back when gas was a $1.25 a gallon." GEMs may look a bit like golf carts - and they may occasionally be used as golf carts as well - but they are real, street-legal vehicles, drivable on any road with a speed limit of 35 mph or less. Their success provides a good window into the growth of the electric car market - unlike Chrysler's other brands, GEM is profitable, selling about 37,000 cars over the past decade, ranging from $7,000 bare-bones 2-seaters to larger, more comfortable vehicles that can cost more...
...MATURATION Gore-Tex covers help limit odors as the compost goes through the aeration process...
...Game Your Play Fitness is easier when it's fun, and you don't have to limit yourself to traditional sports. Active video games like Dance Dance Revolution or many of those available on Wii are good options. But kids can also improvise games--balloon volleyball in the rec room, beach-ball tag in the backyard. The point is to move...
...those kinds of things don't directly address today's pressing economic problems. So Obama has had to come up with three short-term fixes: a $50 billion fiscal-stimulus program, much of it devoted to extending unemployment insurance beyond the current 26-week limit and helping struggling state governments; an aggressive foreclosure-prevention effort, with $10 billion in funding; and a tax cut for Americans making less than $150,000 a year, to be financed with tax increases on those making more than $200,000 a year. These add up to what you could call the stock Democratic response...