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...That means this year's presenters will still get a load of goodies including five days at the Old Bahama Bay on Grand Bahama Island, a one-year bicoastal membership to Sports Club L.A. (with facilities in a half-dozen other locations), a string of real pearls, Dooney & Bourke leather rolling luggage, a 365-day supply of Dove chocolates and Sprint Fusic mobile phones, which retail for $329 each. Just how much the IRS gets is between them and their tax accountants...
...Number of years Alaska's Prudhoe Bay had been producing oil before BP temporarily shut down part of it because of pipe corrosion...
...price of oil jumped $2 a barrel on Monday, past its record $77 close, on word that British driller BP would shut down its field at Alaska's Prudhoe Bay because of corroded, leaky pipes. Immediately, analysts predicted a 3- to 5-cent spike in the price of gasoline, and a ripple effect that could push up prices on everything from airline tickets to petroleum products like plastics. Ten years ago, the markets would have hardly batted an eyelash at the loss of Prudhoe Bay, which accounts for less than 2% of daily U.S. oil consumption. But with production...
...demand has surged, supply has not kept pace (hence higher prices), largely because not enough extra production and refining facilities have come online. That gap makes the market especially sensitive to any loss of supply, even the relatively modest 400,000 barrels a day that came from Prudhoe Bay...
...Connecticut primary, the man the media has deemed kingmaker would rather be home, playing piano. "I just got a new one," says Markos Moulitsas, founder of the website Daily Kos and one of the most prominent voices of the online left. On a beautiful Bay Area afternoon, the heat waves of the Northeast and the heated debate of the Ned Lamont-Joe Lieberman Senate primary are far away - and Moulitsas would like to keep it that way. He says he's only talked to one other reporter and isn't planning on talking to any more: "I'm going media...