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...biggest such study to date, scientists led by Kenneth Vogel from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln performed long-term, large-scale field studies on raising switchgrass as an energy crop. Farmers in 10 fields of 15 to 20 acres each in Nebraska and North and South Dakota grew switchgrass over five years, and kept track of how much fuel and fertilizer they used during the trials. Vogel and his colleagues showed that switchgrass yielded 540% more energy as a biofuel than the amount of energy used to grow, harvest and process it. (Corn ethanol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solving the Biofuels vs. Food Problem | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...every four years. Instead of starting with the same states during every election, we ought to rotate the states that have the earliest primaries each time. Nevertheless, suggestions that Democrats and Republicans should switch to a nationwide primary are misguided. Having all states vote simultaneously would disrupt the small scale of primaries that allows voters a close and detailed perspective on the candidates. In the tradition of retail politics, many voters can meet candidates in person and take time to get to know their positions. Second, the extended schedule allows candidates with relatively little money or national name recognition, such...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Our Primary Concern | 1/6/2008 | See Source »

...travel up the Rift valley, the scale and fury of Kenya's southern division becomes ever more apparent. We enter a village called Kamosong, and 15 men surround the car. One is carrying a foot-long knife, another a hockey stick, a third a bow and arrow, a fourth a wooden club. A man who introduces himself as Thomas tells us the men are from the Kalenjin tribe of former President Daniel Arap Moi. "Have you got anyone in the back?" they ask Preston. "What's your name? Are you Kikuyu?" A few minutes further on, there is another roadblock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Kenya Is on Fire | 1/4/2008 | See Source »

...seems deceptively modest. "My ambition is to exterminate the word bumbling from the vocabulary of profilers," says Boris Johnson, the Conservative candidate for mayor of London. "There's going to be a massive stamping down on the bumbling. Much less bumbling." A quick search on Google reveals the scale of the problem: a combination of the words Boris Johnson and bumbling produces more than 27,600 results. Sample sentence from an article: "Everyone keeps telling me Boris Johnson's bumbling-idiot routine is just that--a routine. I'm not so sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clown Prince | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...always, Iowa condensed the presidential campaign to a human scale, something that is simply impossible almost anywhere else in the country. Yes, there were mind-numbing and endless sleek television ads, hyped rallies and forceful phone calls and mail pieces. But an extraordinary number of Iowa voters made their decisions because of face-to-face contact with the candidates. They listened to the contenders speak and told their own stories. With the candidates unable to hide behind consultants or façades, their worry lines, hoarse voices and unguarded reactions were on full display. And in the end, Iowans used their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iowa's Finish Line | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

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