There is no question that alternative energy has become a hot area for investment, despite its dismal returns recently.

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In this case, he could force people to ask themselves a fundamental question: What is the alternative?

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Earlier this year, I was in Cecil County, Maryland, a very conservative area, and they came right to the brink of suggesting that students read alternative texts that would put evolution into question.

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It is another question whether there is a realistic alternative.

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Whether viewers will accept alternative types of advertising, like product-placement, is open to question as is whether they will continue to gobble up low-cost reality TV.

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Jimmy Tintle, owner, GreenKey Alternative Asset Services, said while another round of quantitative easing could be implemented, the question is when.

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Some assistance in answering the diversification question is to see if your portfolio has any tactical asset allocation strategies, alternative investments and more.

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For an hour and a half they spoke about how to solve what Icelandic President Grimsson called, "the most fundamental question of the 21st century": energy and whether there will ever be enough alternative sources of power to satisfy global demand if, and only if, the world manages to shake its addiction to oil and other fossil fuels.

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Clearly, Congressional leaders should face up to that question and explain what they intend do with it, or at least come up with an alternative jobs plan.

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