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...environmental and health costs of burning fossil fuels, from climate change to air pollution-related illnesses. And while it's difficult to imagine any politician standing up for such a tax, he reminds us that we already have a precedent for a heavy tax that takes into account negative externalities and attempts to discourage consumption: cigarette taxes...
Harvard’s e-mail system is notoriously behind the times. Problems ranging from its limited storage space to the webmail interface’s unwieldy design have caused many students to simply use their school-issued account as a forwarding address to third-party accounts. But recent Undergraduate Council (UC) legislation has highlighted a flaw of a different nature entirely, one that has long gone unrecognized: a threat to student privacy. According to the current wording in the Handbook for Students, administrators may access student email at will in order to “ensure compliance with?...
From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Pennsylvania to the Bay Area farmland of California, small mom-and-pop distilleries have begun making liquor out of all kinds of fruits and grains. They account for a drop in the bucket of the $58 billion spirits industry (a brand like Smirnoff outsells the combined annual production of these small distilleries in a single week), but their liquors often are distinctive in taste, are creatively bottled and fit the trend for locally produced foods. "The microdistilling industry is exactly where the microbrew industry was 20 years ago," says Bill Owens, a brewmaster...
...Granite State in the past five years. While the ones who register do so primarily as undeclared, Smith says he believes they lean heavily Democratic, given that many come from the relatively liberal Boston area. Combined with the 86,000 people who turned 18 in this time, new voters account for nearly a quarter of the state's potential electorate...
...eastern and western Iowa media markets, a party with Chuck Norris in Des Moines, and a Wednesday night appearance on the Tonight Show, even though Jay Leno's studios are located more than 1,500 miles away, as the crow flies. It's a strategy that takes sober account of the fact that Romney has a huge advantage in paid advertising on television, radio and person-to-person contact...