| Breathe deeply: Cleaner air starts with you
In this third Green Living installment of Health & Wellness, the focus is on the air around us. This is fitting, since part one focused on water conservation and part two discussed ways to protect soil. The triple punch of conserving water, protecting soil and purifying air will yield the most effective reduction on your carbon footprint.
Carbon dioxide has earned its bad reputation for being a greenhouse gas that is running rampant. Excess CO2 creates an insulating blanket that prevents heat from the sun from bouncing off the surface of the planet back out into space, causing a cascading accumulation of side effects.
It is true that the composition of our atmosphere fluctuates over time, and in the distant past when there was more CO2 in the air, plants were more abundant and animals were bigger.
Leap Wireless Grows, Cuts Loss … and Shares Climb
Its 52-week range is $29.87 to $99.04. Leaps Nasdaq symbol is LEAP. For the full year, Leap had total revenue of $1.35 billion, up 46 percent from all of 2006 when it had $956.4 million in revenue. The net loss for the year was $75.9 million, compared to a net loss of $24.4 million in 2006. Citing Leaps gains when measured by operating income before depreciation and amortization, CEO Doug Hutcheson called 2007 a good year. Our 2007 results demonstrated the success of our growth initiatives and continuing customer acceptance of our unlimited value proposition, Hutcheson said. At the end of December, Leap said it had 2.86 million customers nationally, but expected to have 3 million by Feb. 28. The Cricket wireless service is offered in 23 states and holds licenses in 35 of the top 50 national markets.
Open Letter To George W. Bush
Your Secretary of Labor ignores it where she does not actually operate to keep it asleep. Yet, on average, every week over 1000 Americans die from the workplace exposures. Under the Reagan Administration, the White House rejected an urgent request by the physicians at the Centers for Disease Control for a three million dollar budget to send certified letters to 250,000 workers found in a lengthy field study to be exposed to significant hazards-chemical and particulate-in their factories, foundries and mines. The letters were to urge the workers to have their doctors check them out for actual or incipient diseases. Instead, the workers were left defenseless. Last week, an explosive fireball imploded the century-old Dixie Crystal sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, taking, at latest count, seven lives and causing many serious injuries.
Ramco bags mega order
Ramco Systems, a leading provider of Enterprise Applications, has bagged an order for automating Inland Container Depot (ICD) from Adani group. The company will provide services to the ICD operations of the Adani group who have recently set up their largest inland container depot (ICD) in India, at Pathi, south of Gurgaon that will facilitate its container train plans. Adani group caters to the logistics need of the country by creating its own multi-modal links. It is constructing silos, warehouses, private sidings and inland container depots at various locations in the country besides entering the field of third party logistics. The group is also considering entering into storage and distribution of farm fresh products.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blocks plan to dam Susquehanna
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that it is denying a permit for an inflatable dam to be built across the Susquehanna River in Wilkes-Barre.
The Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority had proposed building a structure that would have reached 9 1/2 feet high and impounded 4 1/2 miles of the free flowing river. The corps said in a statement that the dam was not the least environmentally damaging way to control floods in the area.
The proposed $14 million dam would fill an acre of wetlands and disrupt the natural current in violation of the Clean Water Act, which requires the corps to maintain the biological integrity of U.S. waterways, the statement said.
The idea of the dam was pushed for many years by U.S.
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