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...turbine technology improve, it will become cheaper and easier for homeowners to provide much of their own electricity. The truly dedicated off-gridder will try to use both solar and wind, as the two energy sources are complementary - when the sun isn't shining, the wind often blows and vice versa. The good news is that Congress passed an extension to the production tax credits for wind and solar power in the recent economic bailout package, which will make installing your own electrical supply cheaper going forward...
...discouraging numbers as well. Job postings from employers fell in all nine Census Bureau regions in October, according to a report released by the job search website Monster.com, whose employment index slid 10 points last month after rising in August and September. The precipitous drop, said Monster Worldwide's vice president of research, Jesse Harriott, "suggests that U.S. businesses are scaling back their recruitment due to uncertainty surrounding the global financial crisis." Other reports confirm the trend: Almost 30% of executives surveyed by the consulting firm McKinsey and Co. in September said they expected their companies to slash staff over...
...Barack Obama’s image superimposed on t-shirts and posters across campus, this idea of art, popular culture, and fashion—that art is fashion and fashion is art—kept popping into my head. That fashion is a form of artistic expression, and vice versa, seems inevitable in today’s consumer culture, but was this always the case? Would Louis XVI’s supporters have worn shirts sporting his powdered, wigged-out likeness? Or would the ancien régime’s detractors have expressed themselves with...
...Having a president and a vice president who actually think that climate change is a serious issue cannot be a bad thing,” said Daniel P. Schrag, the director of the Center for the Environment and a professor of earth and planetary sciences...
...Iran's former Vice President, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, expressed a widely accepted analysis among reformists, saying Iran's conservatives would have preferred a McCain victory, "because they benefit more from enmity with the U.S., which allows them to rally the Islamic world behind their policies and at the same time suppress dissent at home...