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...WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT ARCTIC MONKEYS...
THEY RIPPED OFF THE BEST BITS of Franz Ferdinand and the Strokes--speed, swagger and hooks upon hooks--but instead of hipster navel gazing, Arctic Monkeys' singer Alex Turner looked at the world with a working-class smirk and turned a number of memorable phrases. ("There's only music/ So that there's new ringtones.") The first rock album in ages that feels dangerously smart...
...Year the effects of global warming could cause the Arctic Ocean to be mostly water--instead of icebergs--in the summer...
...airport, immersed in audioblur. I can almost make out what CNN is murmuring (the Arctic or maybe Iraq will melt by 2040); almost make out what a teenager with studs in her lips is whining into her cellphone (is there such a term, among young people, as "shazbot"?); almost make out the announcement of what is causing the latest extension of our flight delay (either "weather" or "whatever"). The people in the news and the people droning and losing their minds around me here are beginning to run together...
...even potentially derail their plans. Moscow revoked a key environmental license for Shell's $20 billion project, and took a tough line with Exxon over likely cost overruns on its $13 billion efforts. Russian officials also took aim at a third big oil exploration site in the Arctic by France's Total, saying it wasn't performing as promised. Widely interpreted as the latest attempt by the Kremlin to gain control of its massive hydrocarbon resources, the triple whammy sent shivers through the Western oil industry. Russian officials have long grumbled about production-sharing agreements it signed with the three...