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...century in the top 10. (It's sixth.) Cameron's new film would have to take in some $950 million in today's dollars just to match his last one. Avatar is barely more than a third of the way toward reaching the real-dollar champ, Gone With the Wind. (See what was learned from a decade at the movies...
...Another factor contributing to the devastation was the outdated warning scheme then used throughout the country. The Forest Fire Danger Index (FDI), invented by scientist Alan McArthur in the 1960s, evaluates the difficulty in extinguishing fires under various combinations of temperature and wind. For most of years since it's been used, an FDI warning of 50 out of 100 points indicated that an area was at extreme risk. But in recent years, there have been many days where the index has hovered around the 100 mark, a shift some attribute to climate change. On Feb. 7, when...
...already highly developed local small-scale agriculture, its "locavore" farm exchanges, with a tax structure reformed to incentivize small business and industry (and to make life difficult for large out-of-state corporations). By 2020, they foresee Vermont producing at least 75% of its own electricity and heat, using wind-, solar-, biomass- and hydro-power. They want to establish a Bank of Vermont owned by the people of Vermont - freed from the arbitrary controls of central bankers - as well as a local alternative currency, with Vermont pension and operating funds invested not in Wall Street but in locally owned financial...
When Klyce compared Hathaway’s breasts to “a couple of windsocks” dangling in the wind, the actress playfully peeked down her shirt...
...with brutal fine print to in-the-tank ratings agencies that vouched for house-of-cards financial instruments they didn't even understand. He proposed much tougher oversight of derivatives, hedge funds and nonbank financial firms like AIG, as well as so-called resolution authority to help public officials wind down failed behemoths like Lehman Brothers during a crisis without triggering a panic. Geithner then shipped hundreds of pages of legislative language to the Hill...