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...largesse of Fidel's left-wing and oil-rich ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has helped significantly to keep Cuba's economy afloat, lessening the urgency of economic reforms that many had expected under Fidel in recent years. (Cuba may also be buoyed by recent discoveries of ample crude reserves off its own coast.) What's more, just beneath Raul sit a number of younger and ideologically purer communist officials, like 40-year-old Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, who are known derisively by many Cubans as "los Taliban" and could limit Raul's room to maneuver on any potential...
...cloning has blurred the line between human and non-human beyond recognition. The way that society has chosen to deal with that fear is to hold scientists at arms length, to label them “the other,” to borrow a phrase, and pigeonhole them into crude caricatures—the necromantic Victor Frankenstein who yells “Eureka!” and laughs madly, or the crotchety old hunchback laboring over fuming beakers—that are strange and abnormal. The dehumanization of scientists is not simply a Western phenomenon. But in contrast...
...prices," says Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley. In addition to geopolitical tension, the hurricane season and its potential to disrupt refineries on the Gulf of Mexico lie ahead. And as we grudgingly get used to $3-per-gal. gasoline--it's been nearly two years since crude oil broke $50 a barrel--companies feel more comfortable passing along their own higher costs to customers...
...Ahead of President Karzai's election in 2004, crude rockets fell weekly around the Kabul. But until May, the capital had been relatively insulated from the chaos in the south, which has left hundreds dead in recent weeks. This week may mark a turning point. Two blasts tore through buses in the morning rush hour, one carrying Afghan soldiers and another filled with government officials on their way to work - a day after two similar blasts near government ministries. There hadn't been a major bombing in Kabul since March. when a suicide bomber tried and failed to kill...
...making oil and gas significant tools of its foreign policy. The clearest sign came last winter, when the state-controlled gas behemoth Gazprom shut off supplies to Ukraine for several days, in what the Russians described as a price dispute but Ukraine and many others took to be a crude political move to punish Kiev for embracing Western institutions such as nato. More recently, Russian government officials have talked tough with West European leaders, raising the prospect that they might divert energy supplies to China and the U.S. if the Europeans don't meet their demands for better access...