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Last week, when London's transit system was wracked by four bombs, New York and other U.S. cities responded again with a mighty show of force. The Coast Guard escorted Staten Island ferryboats. The chief of the New York City police department promised there would be an officer on every rush hour subway train "for the foreseeable future." In Washington, cops clutching MP5 submachine guns strode through subway cars, and Capitol police searched tour buses...
...TIME: How do you respond to critics who say this is a diversion from CNOOC's previous strategy of bringing liquefied natural gas back to China and shipping it into booming markets on the coast and inland. After all, most of the gas Unocal owns in Asia is already under contract in countries like Thailand and Bangladesh, so it can't be exported back for use in China. Fu: This is in no way a diversion. There is potential for gas in the undeveloped properties Unocal has in Indonesia, for example. Second, the other gas businesses there are good assets...
...Yale professor and ESI's creator. (If you're wondering who got the eco?booby prize, it's North Korea.) "The ESI can help a discerning traveler find unexpected ecological treasures. The strong showing of Uruguay [No. 3], beautiful beaches and sprawling pampas, and Guyana [No. 8], unspoiled coast and vibrant jungle [Kaieteur Falls], might provide you with a surprise travel opportunity," says Esty. There's nothing like scenic beauty plus a clear conscience...
...especially overseas. In the past three years, GE's wind business, snapped up from Enron for $358 million, has grown into a $2 billion enterprise, with sales up 300%. GE has been rolling out a new generation of supersized turbines for offshore wind farms, the latest one off the coast of Ireland, and announced its third contract to supply smaller windmills to mainland China--where energy demand is soaring and the government aims to spend $85 billion on pollution controls, especially in smog-choked cities like Beijing, site of the 2008 Olympics. Immelt also intends to capitalize on coal-gasification...
...direct-to-consumer product, it gets oversimplified and oversold," says Hank Greely, an ethicist and lawyer at Stanford Law School who specializes in genetics and biotechnology. Although it is relatively easy to determine African or Asian ancestry, it's more difficult to pinpoint roots in, say, the Ivory Coast or Sri Lanka. Accuracy will improve as genealogical databases acquire more samples, but many in this nation of immigrants and ethnic hybrids are happy to have even approximate answers to that universal question...