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...long existed, but the target of the House legislation is something else entirely - for-profit health-care facilities owned by doctors that perform some of the most lucrative medical procedures in fields like orthopedics and cardiology. There are now some 220 such facilities operating mostly in the South and Midwest - up from 110 in 2001 - generating some $40 billion in annual revenue. According to Sandvig, more than 80 additional facilities are currently under development. (Read "Starting Health-Care Reform...
...depression '30s, a fellow could make movies, play baseball or rob banks. John Dillinger chose Way 3, and for a while he enjoyed the celebrity of a Clark Gable or a Lou Gehrig. Newspapers breathlessly limned his exploits as he made sizable withdrawals from vaults throughout the Midwest, using his machine gun as collateral. But killing cops puts a man at greater risk than hitting a homer or kissing the girl. Dillinger stirred the hunter's blood in J. Edgar Hoover, the young director of the FBI, and Hoover's most resourceful agent, Melvin Purvis. They, and Dillinger too, knew...
...burner, you shift the motion of the water too." The El Niño Modokis also result in reduced vertical wind shear and therefore promote the creation of hurricanes. (When vertical wind shear is too strong, it can tear storms apart before they can fully form.) (Read "Behind the Midwest's Crazy Weather...
True, no economic forecast of 15 years into the future is ironclad, but there are enough safety valves and offsets in Waxman-Markey to ensure the cost will be manageable. But that's the problem. To keep conservative Democrats on board - especially those in the coal-heavy Midwest and Southeast - Waxman and Markey allowed the bill to be watered down considerably, loosening the overall carbon cap and scaling back the renewable-energy standard. When the powerful farm lobby balked at the bill, it was changed to allow farmers to sell offsets from agriculture, such as no-till farming, which leaves...
...wind power - the total amount of sheer energy that's being carried on the breeze - and found that current technology could harness enough power to supply more than 40 times the planet's present-day levels of electricity consumption. For the U.S., there's enough wind concentrated in the Midwest prairie states to supply as much as 16 times the current American demand for electricity. The energy is there, on the breeze - it just needs to be tapped. (Read more about green energy ideas...