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...with the additional demand created by electric cars would simply be to build more power plants. That would be expensive, however, and, if the additional plants burned coal or natural gas, bad for climate change. A better solution: tap into the enormous extra capacity of the grid during off-peak times, like between midnight and dawn. According to a study by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, off-peak capacity could support the conversion of 73% of the current auto fleet - enough to cut demand for oil in half - without the addition of a single extra plant, provided the cars...
Perhaps no one figured that subprime mortgage holders were 10 times as likely to enter into foreclosure as people who made downpayments and could document their ability to pay. "This poor performance in the subprime market calls into question the capabilities of lenders, securitizers and investors to reliably estimate peak charge-off rates," warned Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co. and Joseph R. Mason, a finance professor at Drexel University in a paper in early 2007. When all the indicators went bad - delinquencies and interest rates up, home prices down - the agencies started yanking the ratings on CDOs...
...Alaska, as his running mate measured a magnitude 10. If you compare the number of searches for "John McCain," "Barack Obama" or "Joe Biden" with those for "Sarah Palin," there's no contest. In just two days, the number of U.S. Internet searches for "Sarah Palin" reached a peak greater than any other political personality in the past three years. In the week ending Aug. 30, 2008, searches for Governor Palin were almost four times as popular as Obama searches, eight times as popular as McCain searches and over 10 times more popular than searches for Biden...
...military tribute and a Three Stooges routine. But that's par for a Farber piece. As Polito notes, he "sustains strings of divergent, perhaps irreconcilable adjectives such that praise can seem inseparable from censure - Touch of Evil, he writes, is 'basically the best movie of Welles's cruddy middle peak period...
...ways, though, Etown feels like a throwback to a time when musicians played with a social conscience and music could effect political change. But what's clear is that show's gradual success mirrors the growth of environmental thinking nationally in the U.S. - a process that might reach a peak at the Democratic Convention, where energy and the environment will be higher on the political agenda than ever before. Ultimately, whether or not delegates offset their carbon emissions or bike around Denver in the August heat will matter less than whether 2008 marks the moment that environmentalism truly enters...