World Report: April 20, 2007 Vol. #12 Iss. #25

Greetings from ... New York

New York State is harvesting wind power.The windmills at the Maple Ridge Wind Farm, in Lowville, New York, generate enough electricity to power 160,000 homes for a day. Maple Ridge's 195 turbine towers are 260 feet tall. The blades rotate 14 times a minute.

POPULATION: 19,254,630

LAND AREA: 47,224 square miles

CAPITAL: Albany

LARGEST CITY: New York

NICKNAME: The Empire State

MOTTO: Excelsior (Latin for "ever upward")