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...dirt. The other key advances are aimed above ground. Local opposition to geothermal projects in Tuscany is growing because the tourism industry is booming, and property owners have begun to organize not-in-my-backyard campaigns to prevent anything spoiling the idyllic landscape. And rising real estate prices crimp on Enel's effort to expand, too. This "clean" energy source, in truth, falls short of immaculate. The old, large cooling towers, which look like nuclear power plants, spoil the view for kilometers around, and the energy production leaves a sulfuric smell in the air. Still, it is safe compared...
...last December's suicide attack on the Indian Parliament by jihadis linked to Pakistan put a crimp in the style of the D-Company. India moved 1 million troops to the border and demanded the return of 20 fugitives, including Dawood and Shakeel, and five other men from Bombay who masterminded the 1993 blasts. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he has no knowledge that they're living in his country. They shouldn't be that hard to find. I still have their Pakistani phone numbers and addresses from 1999. Musharraf has privately told U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that...
...make retail for $15. As long as the only way to get that music was through those channels, then Metallica and its label, Electra (owned by Time Warner, TIME's publisher), had a great gig. Last week a Federal Trade Commission settlement with major record companies put a crimp in that business. It said consumers may have overpaid $480 million in the past three years and that the companies would change their pricing policies...
Republicans are muttering about a securities rule that's putting a crimp in the GEORGE W. BUSH juggernaut. Rule G-37 prevents Bush from accepting much Wall Street money. It limits how much can be contributed by brokers and dealers in the public-bond business to state and local officials who can influence who gets that business, including Governors and mayors. The restriction applies to anyone who does bond business as well as the firm's top executives, plus...
Republicans are muttering about a securities rule that's putting a crimp in Gov. George W. Bush's juggernaut. Rule G-37 limits how much can be contributed by brokers and dealers in the public-bond business to state and local officials who can influence who gets that business, including governors and mayors. The restriction applies to anyone who does bond business as well as the firm's top executives, plus...