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...China?s hunger for energy is growing more ravenous by the day, the study said; by 2025, the DOE estimates that China?s demand will more than double, to 14.2 million barrels of oil per day, and its imports will more than triple, to 10.7 million barrels per day. Even though China is aggressively diversifying its sources of supply, DOE says, by investing in Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Sudan, Iraq, Peru, Azerbaijan, Sudan and Indonesia, Iran is still likely to figure as one of its most dependable suppliers...
...April 28 deadline looms for Tehran to comply with the U.N. demand that it suspend uranium-enrichment activities, Iran's position has appeared to grow even more defiant: Last week, it announced that it had actually succeeded in enriching uranium in a laboratory setting for the first time, and Ahmadinejad followed up with some trademark bellicosity, threatening Israel and vowing to "cut off the hand" of anyone who attacks Iran...
...downside of that is that with no leader, no ideology and no apparent organization, the protests have no discernible direction. Political party leaders had promised that today hundreds of thousands of people would march on the palace and demand Gyanendra's head. Instead, with the palace merely a few miles away, the demonstrators chose to confront the police and army deployed along Kathmandu's ring road, turning it into a circle of fire around the capital. At least three people died when police opened fire on one protest in Kalanki to the southwest, and all afternoon the entire city...
...factors in the global economy. Nobody paid any attention to them during economic recoveries in 1975, 1982 and 1991. But today, China, which recently became the world's fourth largest economy, has great significance both as a supplier of manufactured goods and a consumer of natural resources. The demand from China for raw materials has already resulted in higher equilibrium prices for many commodities, from coal to copper to palm oil. And if all goes well in India, which has many economic similarities to China 20 years ago, its economy will clock real GDP growth of more than...
...Christians’ response to this string of events is a sharp contrast to last November, when Harvard’s Muslim community felt under attack at the publication of anti-Islamic Danish cartoons. A town hall meeting had to be called to save face. No such action, or demand, for that matter, has occurred in the case of the Christians. Apparently, Harvard’s Christians are used to being slighted.Harvard was founded by Puritans as a place of study for clergymen. As it grew into a more modern and progressive institution, the University shed its Christian roots...