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...corporations linked to Abramoff?including a million-dollar payment that may well have come indirectly from corrupt Russian oil interests, which have never expressed much interest in moral fitness; half a million dollars from textile companies in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific that are known for their cheap labor; and a quarter of a million from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Abramoff's largest client. (See accompanying graphic...
...this spring, the PS3 is supposed to have better graphics and will support up to seven wireless game pads (Xbox 360 allows four). PS3's best advantage: it will play high-definition Blu-ray DVDs. But at an expected retail price of $400 to $500, it won't come cheap. TAPPING INTO THE POWER OF FUEL CELLS Could Medis Technologies turn the Energizer Bunny into roadkill? The company's disposable $19.99 fuel cell batteries will deliver up to 20 hours of cell-phone talk time. Optional adapters allow it to juice up iPods and PDAs as well...
...denies). Since then, despite what critics call Chávez's penchant for authoritarian rule, his popularity has risen--not only in Latin America but also in some parts of U.S. cities like Boston and New York, where the Venezuelan government--owned company Citgo is providing low-income residents with cheap heating oil this winter. Chávez has surpassed his good friend Fidel Castro as the anti-U.S. idol of the Latin American masses--and as a model for other populist leaders in the region, although few have his petroleum resources to use as a cudgel...
...push hard this winter for such a program. House Republican leaders say they might accept one if immigrants had to return home to apply for temporary work permits. Hayworth tells TIME that even that would be too lenient, designed to appease "left-wing grievance mongers" and businesses that want cheap labor. Bush may have sounded as if he were running for sheriff during his recent border visits, but to convince the likes of Hayworth, he'll have to talk a lot tougher...
...head of M&A, sees no sign of a slowdown anytime soon. "The first half of 2006 has to be the best seller's market for a long time," he says. While companies spent the first half of this decade reducing debt and cleaning up their balance sheets, now cheap money - thanks to low interest rates - has revived the M&A boom. The level of merger activity in Europe is still below the absolute peaks hit in 1999 and 2000, at the height of the Internet bubble, but it has been rising sharply in the past 18 months...