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Bitter-Sweet In '08 Mark Halperin reports from the campaign every day on thepage.time.com
...Clean Energy Myth" misses the mark [April 7]. The one-sided and scientifically uninformed piece ignores the large potential of second- and third-generation biofuels to reduce greenhouse gases and the ability of modern agriculture to responsibly manage land use. The Science magazine article (by Searchinger et al) on which TIME relies has been thoroughly rebutted by leading scientists at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. TIME owes its readers the totality of facts to avoid misinformation. For many decades, the U.S. has worked with farmers and the scientific community to increase crop yields, reduce the intensity...
...attract 200,000 new donors, most of them online, rescuing her campaign from the brink of bankruptcy. Obama has amassed an army of 750,000 supporters who have signed on to his website and participated in 30,000 offline events. Obama's online fund-raising eclipsed the $100 million mark in the first three months of the year, and his YouTube videos have been viewed 37 million times, a figure that would make any television executive weep. "It is a seismic change," says Michael Malbin, the executive direc tor of the Campaign Finance Institute. "This year's donors...
...billion position. Muni yields almost never beat Treasury yields because both are considered safe, but the income from munis is tax exempt. That anomaly occurred earlier this year, and even though some order has been restored, muni yields remain historically high. "These aren't as safe as cash," says Mark Soehn, managing director at Financial Solutions Advisory Group in Chicago. "But the risk is well worth it." He recently put his clients into the BlackRock International Municipal closed-end fund, which was trading at an unusually large 12% discount to the assets in the fund and yielding 5.7%. The after...
...Nothing is off limits: a gospel choir makes occasional appearances, as does the sproingy sound associated with clown cartoons. Green churns out diverse, cheeky ballads at an almost alarming rate, with only one of the album’s twenty songs reaching the three-minute mark. Though it may not provide the most cohesive listening experience, the album’s variety means that there’s a decent possibility you’ll find something you like, provided your generation has been fed a steady diet of irony. But unless it’s Adam Green himself you?...