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...megawatt-hours a year - from wind farms. But that doesn't mean Vail is dumping its old energy providers. Instead it has purchased "wind power credits" from a Boulder-based company called Renewable Choice Energy, which in turn pays wind farms throughout the country to produce electricity - enough to offset 211 million lbs. of carbon dioxide emissions each year. This purchase makes Vail the second-largest buyer of wind energy in the nation behind the supermarket super-chain Whole Foods, which went 100% wind power with their 458,000 megawatt-hours in January...
...professional scribes alike. And he might be wishing he could benefit from mainstream media's deep pockets. His legal bills exceed $75,000, according to his attorney. Fees from other lawyers are piling up, too. His mother is keeping up his blog, where donations are being solicited to offset his escalating legal costs. Mainstream civic and media interests like the Society for Professional Journalists, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Lawyer's Guild, the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board, and San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have all voiced support for Wolf. The blogosphere, by contrast, hasn...
...from 2003. By redeploying its resources toward broadening its audience, the rationale goes, AOL will be able to compete more efficiently, dropping, among other costs, the hundreds of millions it has been spending to attract new subscribers. The risk is that advertising sales won't grow quickly enough to offset the loss of subscription dollars...
...Megan Merritt will also spark improvement for the team after an impressive sophomore campaign. Both will hope they can focus the team’s effort on the main tangible weakness of 2005—scoring goals. The Crimson was last in the Ivies with only 14 goals scored, offset by an Ivy-best eight goals against. Without Shields, who was a consistent and reliable force for the Crimson last season, the need for more offense will become more apparent. “I think we’re definitely going to focus on our offense and attack...
...country and recently put out a list of initiatives Democrats would pursue were they to seize control: raising the minimum wage, cutting student loan interest rates, reducing government subsidies to oil companies and instituting so-called pay-as-you go budget principles, meaning every increase in spending would be offset by either a tax increase or a cut in some other spending program. And Democrats will put out a plan calling for increased spending on education and other domestic policy changes later this month. "If you look at the polling in the last few years, it points in the same...