Kansas and Iowa, rich in wind resources, can provide more electricity than other states.

If that sounds ambitious, consider that the country has installed some 50, 000 wind turbines on land over the past two decades. They now supply roughly 5 percent of the nation’s electric power, a figure that reaches double digits in particularly windy states like Kansas and Iowa.

Everyone knows that Chinese students are flooding American campuses. Less widely known is that their mothers are coming, too. Last year 394, 669 pupils from China were studying at American universities, secondary and primary schools, the largest contingent of all international students. Increasingly their parents are moving in with them, buying local properties or investing at least $ 500, 000 in businesses to try to qualify for a green card.