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These days there are other wildcatters running tiny public companies investing in places like Peru and the Caspian Sea, but no one else is negotiating with sovereign governments for million-acre leases on Van Dyke's scale. On a trip to Libreville, Gabon Van Dyke shook hands with President Omar...
Of all the impulses in humanity's behavioral portfolio, ambition--that need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it--ought to be one of the most democratically distributed. Nature is a zero-sum game, after all. Every buffalo you kill for your...
What Kilmer has become known for is being difficult to work with. Every interviewer is told by his publicist not to bring that up, and 10 minutes into every interview, Kilmer himself brings it up. As part of his new business plan, the usually press-averse Kilmer is going on...
Third-generation corn farmer Paul Siegel says working the land will always be his true love. "There's nothing like planting a seed, nurturing it and harvesting it," says the owner of Siegel's Cottonwood Farms in Crest Hill, Ill., near Chicago. But Siegel admits that it is his annual...
Aboard the ferry, local businessmen wheel and deal and sometimes talk like visionaries. Henry Smith, the man in charge of federal No Child Left Behind programs in St. Bernard, daydreams about building schools on stilts with dorms above them for shelter during hurricane season. Right now, he's just hoping...