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...million last year, but his counterpart at Exxon-Mobil, Lee Raymond, retired with a package worth an astonishing $400 million - adding more fuel to the fire over CEO pay and calls for oil industry profits to be reined in. While BP isn?t lobbying for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the company has big plans to expand in North America; it aims to invest $37 billion over the next decade, including refinery expansions, increased exploration and production in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico and development of a liquefied natural gas terminal. ?They have more to lose...
...foot whaleboats that, on better days, the whaleship dispatched to harpoon the bowhead whales that brought white men to these remote climes. And, completing the scene, forming its outer perimeter, nine other whaling vessels swung at anchor in the eerily calm waters of this 37°F cloudless Arctic morning. A day earlier, the winds that often slice through this storied, icy gut dividing North America and Asia had roiled those waters; swells had blown the Brunswick-the now-listing ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts-against one of the ice floes. During the summer, these chunks of ice drift northward...
...Courage. That the Shenandoah captured those ten whaling vessels in the Bering Strait more than two months after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse adds only more incongruity. But on June 28, 1865, the obvious ironies, much like Davis' solace, meant nothing to the men gathered off this Arctic shore. For the whalemen and the owners of the destroyed ships, the consequences were tragic. For Waddell and his crew, oddly enough, heroism of a sort would soon be called...
...behavior of Gus, the polar bear in New York City's Central Park Zoo. "Though Gus is perfectly healthy, people tell us to send him back," says Alison Powers, communications director of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Central Park's parent institution. "But Gus wasn't ripped out of the Arctic. He came from Ohio. He wouldn't stand a chance in the wild...
...this kind of help is on the way. Leadership aides in the House and Senate say the Republican plan is to roll out bills narrowly tailored to individual issues that will at least give the appearance of action. The controversial, long-stalled proposal to authorize drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will emerge before mid-June as a solo piece of legislation. A bill on standardizing fuel mixtures across the country will also be offered. And support is gaining for stricter conservation requirements for companies - though notably not for individuals. One thing you won't see are more attempts...