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...50¢ and resold in neighboring countries that produce no oil for as much as $10. Luxury items are smuggled in tax free by middlemen and then resold at a higher price. One big moneymaker for the sons involves trucking diesel fuel into Turkey. The trade has fallen off amid recent preparations for war, but at its high point, according to the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington-based human-rights group, some 45,000 Turkish truckers traveled regularly between the oil fields of northern Iraq and delivery points in eastern Turkey...
...film also describes the story of two American soldiers, Hugh Thompson and Larry Colburn. Unlike the other soldiers, the two stopped their helicopter amid the massacre and rescued several civilians...
...scene of auto-Oedipal aggression that will stay with me for a long time. Barney reminds you sometimes of a sinister voluptuary. (That's a compliment.) At other times he seems more like a gee-whiz mythomaniac. (That's not.) There are lustrous episodes all through his films, amid stretches of state-of-the-art art boredom and Surrealist touches that remind you that Surrealism can be the last refuge of scoundrels...
...right way to frame the SUV debate is not whether SUVs should be dumped but whether society pays too much, and their drivers too little, for the benefits SUVs provide. One point that environmentalists and auto executives agree upon is that gas prices, despite their recent rise amid the talk of war, remain low by historical standards. Eron Shosteck of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers says his members offer more than 30 passenger vehicles that get at least 30 m.p.g. (compared with, say, the Range Rover, which gets 14). "But very few people buy them," Shosteck says of the fuel...
...also an electricity generator. McArthur River lies at the heart of a nuclear empire that Cameco says will soon stretch from Saskatchewan to Central Asia to Australia. Cameco's stock, which has been climbing since early 2000, hit a one-year low of $16 a share last September, amid uncertainties about the uranium market. But as war with Iraq has grown more likely, and McArthur River production has reached capacity, investors have pushed the stock back up to almost $24 a share...