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What's fueling the price rise? Growing global demand and investors spooked by political tensions in the Middle East have pushed crude-oil prices up. Gasoline production in the U.S. is down 9% compared with 2005, as hurricane-damaged refineries struggle to return to full production. Finally, changes in energy laws are prompting fuel suppliers to use corn-based ethanol as an additive to help gas burn more cleanly, instead of the additive MBTE, which has health risks. But ethanol supply problems have raised gas prices...
Japan is grimly determined, however, to expand its whaling business, in part as cover for its $14 billion commercial fishing industry, which is increasingly being targeted by other environmental bodies. Although slackening demand has pushed wholesale prices of whale meat down 10% to 30% over the past year alone, it remains costly, at a wholesale rate that ranges between $3.70 and $70 per lb., depending on the cut. The marbled tail meat is prized by connoisseurs, as is whale sashimi, which is eaten with grated ginger or garlic to mask the odor. "I've had the meat," says Miki Ikari...
...knows, are for the use of married adults, but just anyone can waltz into the drugstore and buy a package—even several packages!—without presenting a valid state ID or even a marriage license. I can hardly contain myself any longer—I demand a boycott. CVS needs to stop selling diapers. Everybody knows that diapers are used when a married man and a woman love each other very much and need something to bundle their little baby up in so that he does not soil his jumper. However, the availability of diapers...
...blame legendary Studio One owner and producer Clement Seymour Dodd, a.k.a. “Coxsone.” Coxsone was part Elvis manager Colonel Tom Parker and part Motown Records proprietor Barry Gordy. He shared Parker’s view that music was more business than art, and he demanded the Wailers produce songs on demand. The group spent two years in a trailer behind Coxsone’s place of business, toking up and pumping out new material. If the lazy tone of the two-disc collection shows anything, it’s that they did both aplenty. Coxsone...
...Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw during their Baghdad visit something of a kiss of death. More importantly, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, to whom the Shi'ite bloc turned for guidance on resolving the standoff, has insisted that it resolve the issue both speedily and unanimously. That demand will likely translate into a compromise candidate, and Abdul-Mahdi doesn't necessarily fit that bill: not only has he come out publicly against Jaafari, but Jaafari's principal backer is radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, whose militia and political organization are at loggerheads with Abdul-Mahdi's SCIRI...