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...jack-o-lantern gallery in which pumpkins are carved to look like famous characters from American horror movies. Admission is $22—quite a pretty penny! And grab a friend’s car—Witch’s Woods is located in Westford near the Nashoba Valley Ski Area. http://www.witchswoods.com. Spook-seekers with a taste for the gargantuan should also consider Haunted Overload (“an extravaganza that overloads the senses”) in Exeter, N.H. around an hour’s drive from Harvard Square. Listed as one of the top 13 Haunted Houses...
...University of California in Los Angeles last week. "California is being given an opportunity and an obligation to do something remarkable to save the planet," Clinton told the crowd of 5,000. "You are dangerously dependent on unstable sources of oil, and your air is too polluted." Silicon Valley bigwigs, including Google founder Larry Page and venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla - wagering that clean tech will be the next bonanza - have also ponied up several million in favor of the initiative...
Vinod Khosla knows how to balance risk and reward. The billionaire venture capitalist built his career making improbable technology bets - and more often than not getting it right. As a founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Silicon Valley's storied venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Khosla and his colleagues backed some of the Internet's biggest sensations, like Google, Amazon, Excite and Netscape. Today, his deals assume a completely different type of risk: kicking America's dirty oil habit...
...Clean tech, as he sees it, promises serious returns that could rival any Internet success. In fact, Khosla wagers that the Googles and Yahoos of clean tech have yet to emerge. "Energy is subject to the same sort of scientific breakthroughs, innovation and entrepreneurial efforts that have characterized Silicon Valley's impact in microprocessors, PCs, biotechnology, telecommunications and the Internet," Khosla tells TIME. The promise of today's green tech boom, however, isn't just sky-high IPOs. Khosla is betting that his investments, along with his own bold policy ideas, will speed the creation of a clean tech economy...
...Since starting his own investment firm in 2004, the 51-year-old engineer has become a self-styled green maverick in Silicon Valley, pouring tens of millions of his own fortune into clean energy startups and spurring infusions of private capital from Wall Street and other venture capitalists into alternative energy ventures. "We can replace all of our gasoline with ethanol-like fuels," Khosla says. His timeline: 25 years. But he's not waiting for the feds to hand out grants; he's investing in promising startups like Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, Calif., which is bioengineering microbes that produce alternative...