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...responding to members of Congress who had made a public plea for oil companies to provide lower-cost home-heating oil to U.S. families squeezed by the rising price of fuel. No U.S.-owned firm stepped forward; Citgo did. (Sunoco has since set up a program that provides free heating oil to 1,100 residents in the Philadelphia area.) Admittedly, it was a chance for Chávez to showcase "one of our revolution's most important principles," as then Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. Bernardo Alvarez told TIME in 2006: "the redistribution of oil revenues, especially for the poor...
With or without Chávez's oil, U.S. homeowners are facing lower heating costs this winter: about $2.25 per gal. of heating oil, compared with a record high of more than $4.50 last year. Still, those households are also confronting the worst economic crisis since the Depression and the unemployment and precarious finances that come with it. As a result, politicians like Democratic U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah, many of whose Philadelphia constituents have received the Citgo fuel, wonder why U.S. oil giants like ExxonMobil - which saw a record $40 billion profit in 2007 and probably broke that...
...Bioethics in a 2003 report on enhancement, "We must live, or try to live, as true men and women, accepting our finite limits, cultivating our given gifts, and performing in ways that are humanly excellent. To do otherwise is to achieve our most desired results at the ultimate cost: getting what we seek or think we seek by no longer being ourselves." That is, we cheat ourselves out of ownership of our own success and damage our sense of self...
...worst listener around—I could certainly carry on a coherent conversation. But there were times when I would repeatedly ask the same questions, fail to understand the conclusion of a story, or even bid someone new farewell with the wrong name. And while it may not have cost me any friendships, my simple lack of attention in common verbal circumstances made me feel self-centered too often...
...Democrats say the GOP is waiting in the wings, ready to object to Burris and demand a special election (as Illinois Republicans unsuccessfully tried to do a few weeks ago); given the way Blagojevich has dragged down the local party in recent weeks, Democrats fear such a vote would cost them the seat. "The [Republicans] wouldn't have a leg to stand on if Quinn were to appoint someone," a senior Democratic Senate aide said...