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...city. But in the 1970s new federal utility laws threw transmission lines open to all comers. Now utilities could get their power wherever it was cheapest, even if that meant it had to travel farther: power generated in Alabama is sold to Vermont. The nation's power grid--the vast system of lines, transformers and switching stations--was never designed to move electricity long distances, let alone "from Maine to Miami," points out Terry Boston of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
There may be good news in all this. Much of the recent increase in interest rates has been technical--giant mortgage holders like Pimco, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Chase and J.P. Morgan have been selling T-bonds in a complex strategy that helps to shield their vast mortgage holdings against risk. But despite signs of economic recovery, Gross believes bond yields will settle in at current levels--meaning mortgage rates will settle here as well. "We're done selling," Gross says. At least...
...that every young American citizen should serve their country for at least a two-year period between the ages of 18 and 25. You get a tremendous amount of benefit being an American citizen and it is not free. Many pay for everyone elses freedoms and rights while the vast majority sit back, enjoy the benefit of others' sacrifice and complain when things don't go as they would like. No college deferments or the like, go to school before or after you do your share! Carl Bogdon New Jersey...
...guided the College with a steadying hand through turbulent seas and in calm waters, he nudged the administration with wisdom and vast experience, and he elicited true affection and respect from both the students and his colleagues in University Hall,” former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said in a statement...
...topography, air temperature, humidity and, last but not least, fuel load. Variations in fuel load create the equivalent of speed bumps in the landscape that serve to slow fire down, and the problem we have now is that this patchiness in many places has all but disappeared--replaced by vast tracts of forest that are uniformly dense with unburned kindling...