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Writer Chris Byron makes the oil companies sound like a charity group. He justifies their greed by informing us that "surely nobody knows how to find the crude better than oilmen do." Does this justify future windfall profits at the expense of the American public? Business practices, like oil, should be refined, not crude...
...view from Staff Writer Chris Byron's office window is truly inspiring-if, that is, he happens to be writing about his favorite subject, energy. Byron has an unobstructed vista of the Manhattan headquarters of Exxon Corp., one of the world's richest industrial enterprises and perennial Most Valuable Player in the high-stakes game of international oil, the subject of this week's cover story. With help from Reporter-Researchers Lydia Chavez and Charles Alexander, Byron dissects the maddeningly complex, increasingly contentious process by which oil is discovered, delivered, refined, priced, taxed and, in too many...
...Byron has been trying to understand that process for much of his career. A graduate of Yale and Columbia Law, he joined TIME in 1971 and reported from Bonn and London, often about business and energy, before becoming a New York-based writer two years ago. "I hear the same solutions proposed, and the same complaining I heard five years ago," he says of the current crisis. "It's like watching reruns of a depressing moviethe same scenes, the same actors and the same script...
...Writer Byron, convinced that Americans are the "true villains who waste depletable resources," has embarked upon his own conservation scheme. Last fall, just before he wrote a TIME story on what he calls "forest power," Byron installed two woodburning stoves in his Connecticut home. The move, he reports, "took $1,000 off my winter heating fuel bill." Tompkins, who lives in a Manhattan apartment building, doubts that wood is the proper alternative energy source for him, but does keep in touch with some relatives in Arizona who are building solar homes. That, says Tompkins, gazing out his office window...
...many court watchers believed that reasoning would stand up in the Supreme Court. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White asserted that the press already has a great deal of protection against libel suits. Ever since the landmark New York Times vs. Sullivan case in 1964, public officials-and, since 1966, public figures like Colonel Herbert-must prove "actual malice." That means that a journalist consciously lied or had serious doubts about the accuracy of his report. Sullivan thus made it essential to focus on the reporter's state of mind, argued White. Apparently, he added, no journalist...