Day January 12, 2008

A superb season for maple syrup

It’s been cold, warm, moist, then cold again in New England – the perfect conditions for producing exceptionally good maple syrup. The more temperature variation before trees are actually tapped in February, the sweeter the sap. When the local farmer…

Tata Nano. Global warming microcosm

The Tata Nano has just been released in India. It’s the world’s cheapest car, just $2500, and it expected to revolutionize transportation in India, where people are already lining up to buy it. Environmentalists in western countries seem are horrified…

Stock market gets the wobbles

So, Bank of America is buying Countrywide before it craters completely. Quite an end to what once was the biggest mortgage company in the country.  They have 54,000 employees.  Tens of thousands of them will probably be losing their jobs.…