Year-round residents of Nantucket are voting today on whether the island should support a proposed wind farm to be built 14 miles off their scenic coast. While such offshore farms are big in Europe, this would be the first one in the U.S.
Our fondness for fatty foods is widening our waists, shortening our lives, and ballooning our health care costs. Doesn't that qualify as a crisis worthy of a presidential counter-offensive? and
We now know that superlobbyist Jack Abramoff's fondness for buying favors with beef all the way back to grade school. and