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...bloated federal bureaucracies to pursue tax scofflaws. Every person would pay 23% on every new car, suit, pair of shoes, radio and home. In return, individuals and companies would pay no income tax. With no disincentives for earning more, investment would boom. The stronger dollar would also deflate the price of oil, killing two birds with one stone. John P. Kuchta Jr., Virginia Beach...
...dollars per watt of energy produced, a formula that's a combination of the cost of producing a module and its power efficiency. Right now the best crystalline-silicon makers can sell modules at $3 to $4 a watt; First Solar can sell at around $2.40 a watt, a price the company expects to reduce steadily. "They've really pushed this industry over the threshold," says Travis Bradford, author of The Solar Revolution. "They possess great technology...
Thanks to Asia's construction boom, the price of copper has risen from less than $1 per pound (0.45 kg) in 2003 to more than $4 per pound in April, and burglars are lifting the metal wherever they can find it. The copper in plumbing, air conditioners, utility wire, rain gutters, sprinklers and bronze sculptures like Dan (bronze is a copper alloy) is easy to sell and tough to trace, police say, making it a popular cash source for meth addicts...
SCRAP METAL CSI The price of copper has quadrupled since 2003 owing to the construction boom in Asia. Here are a few items thieves are cashing in at scrap yards...
...border between realism and snuff. There's a basic sense that art is supposed to make of the world that Say You're One of Them--gorgeously written as it is--does not. You could read it, but why? Kiss your family, enjoy a hot shower, and donate the price of a hardcover book to charity instead...