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...CORN AND OTHER crops in Kentucky's hilly Amish country. As a member of the 2,300-strong Hopkinsville Elevator Cooperative, he is also part owner of the hottest new thing to hit town, Commonwealth Agri-Energy, an ethanol plant that started up a year ago in a stream-fed rock quarry a mile south of his land. The cooperative has a 94% stake in the $32 million plant, which has made an estimated $40 million in sales over the past year from ethanol and its by-products. Plant manager Mick Henderson says he expects that investors will get returns...
...stores every year to pump up sales. Meanwhile, Wendy's had some very lucrative ground to itself. It is only one-fifth the size of McDonald's in terms of sales, but Wendy's kept growing and generated healthy profits by pulling people into its stores with a steady stream of carefully tested new ideas and products, like the 99˘ value menu, salads and high-quality chicken sandwiches...
...400h comes equipped with creature comforts like a navigation system, rain-sensing wipers, aluminum alloy wheels and a screen that lets you see what's behind you simply by looking at a dashboard monitor. (A camera mounted just above the rear bumper provides the video stream.) We found the navigation system to be slow and confusing but loved extra-cost options like the heated front seats ($540) and the rear-seat DVD system with wireless headphones...
There are a wide variety of gifts donors can make to Harvard while still providing themselves benefits ranging from annuities to tax deductions. These “planned giving” options include charitable trusts, gift annuities, and pooled income funds, all of which provide donors with a stream of income in exchange for their gift, which is invested by Harvard and reverts to Harvard upon the donor’s death...
Back in the ER, the staff members have all but forgotten the patients they saw only hours earlier. Though there will be no more bombings this day, a steady stream of patients keeps Emad busy. "Sometimes we forget that not everybody who comes here has a bullet wound or shrapnel from a bomb blast," he says. "There are many ways for people to get hurt." But it isn't long before another war wound appears in the ER: a young man shot in the hip. "Here we go," Emad whispers, almost to himself, as he gets back to work. --With...