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...Michael Moore: Because what?s even more broken is the fact that our Congress and White House are bought and paid for by these two industries, which rival the oil industry in terms of money and influence. They have a vested interest in maintaining their control. But they?re not dumb. They know which way the wind is blowing and that this is the No. 1 domestic issue with Americans. Their job now is to try to control it so that universal health care is run through them, so that they can still skim the money, make the obscene profits...
...launched by Russia. In 1997, Medvedev had his first taste of hydrocarbons as vice president of Eastern Oil Company (EOC), co-owned by IMAG with Yukos. Then, late in 1997, Medvedev clashed with Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who eased EOC out of the deal. Eventually, however, Yukos would be broken up by the state and Khodorkovsky controversially sent to prison...
Even under the most hopeful scenarios, it's doubtful that Mansour and places like it will ever be the same. Pulling out of Kuehl's headquarters, our humvee drives through several inches of dark green sludge that has been seeping out of a broken sewage pipe for a week. We turn toward the center of Mansour, driving along a familiar set of railroad tracks. Looking across the gravel berms, I can see our old street. I see the empty corner where a group of brothers used to grill giant splayed carp, called masgouf, over open coals every evening. Down farther...
...through 2010, according to the Sydney-based Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), an industry consultancy. Yet carriers such as low-cost upstarts Air Deccan, IndiGo, GoAir and SpiceJet have added so many flights--even though there's no place to land them--that profit-destroying fare wars have broken out. Air Deccan, for example, advertises a fare of just $6.60 plus taxes for a 45-min. flight from New Delhi to Jaipur. Add in higher fuel prices, and you've got a recipe for red ink. Indian airlines lost some $500 million last year, after a couple of years...
...most rebellious thing of all may be to suggest that white-collar workers can be complex, sympathetic, even noble. If this idea hasn't broken through in mainstream pop, there's a market for it on the Internet, that brackish borderland between work and play. Jonathan Coulton went online to release Code Monkey, his Rick Springfield--esque single about a computer programmer who endures the taunts of a dim-witted manager because the programmer is in love with the receptionist. "It's about having an escape fantasy but being unable to act on it," Coulton, a programmer himself, says...