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...Midland, the U.S. food-processing giant, has become a hot stock-market play because it is America's largest producer of ethanol, an alternative fuel seen as a way to reduce U.S. dependence on oil imports. "The direction towards environmental issues is the right one," says Tatsuya Mizuno, an analyst with Fitch Ratings. But it's too soon for CEOs to bet their jobs on the expectation that going green will get them...
...number of centrifuges Iran is actually running matters, because the central question of concern to the West is whether Iran has attained the requisite centrifuge know-how necessary to make bombs or is exaggerating its nuclear activity to boost its negotiation position. Analysts in Tehran believe the answer lies somewhere in between. "While I think the president's announcement was mostly important from a propaganda and political standpoint," said Saeed Laylaz, a former government official and analyst, "that doesn't mean the centrifuge goal is not reachable." He believes it is quite possible 2,000 centrifuges have been installed...
...Ahmadinejad's latest boast is more likely to be read as a political tactic than a statement of technological capability. "Iran has been creating facts on the ground as part of its negotiating strategy," says Paul Kerr, non-proliferation analyst at the Arms Control Association. "The further along the program, the more of it they will be able to keep in the future - so their thinking goes. Iranian officials have noted that other countries who pursued enrichment in the past got a lot of static from the international community at the early stages, but were later able to keep their...
...dream may be wrong. One or more of them could be right. "I have no doubt that dreams can be enjoyable, informative, even revelatory to the dreamer," says Harvard's Stickgold. "But dream analysis is a more tricky question. The more dogmatic and doctrinaire the beliefs of the analyst, the less useful and potentially more destructive the analysis process becomes." People should understand, he adds, that dreams aren't constructed with the goal of delivering a message; they don't have an inherent meaning. "But when you look at your dreams after you wake up... you can often feel...
...armed forces' obedience to the President; the Rada, on the other hand, controls the police. Meanwhile, all the political forces vow to abide by the court's ruling, which is expected within days. "That might be one way out of this stalemate," says Viktor Nebozhenko, Ukraine's authoritative political analyst. But even the most Solomonic judgment may not be enough to repair the bitter rift between the two democratically elected branches of Ukraine's fractured government and set the country on a clear and peaceful course...