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...meet the surging demand for natural gas in the short term, Greenspan does see a solution: liquefied natural gas (LNG). He has told Congress that "given notable cost reductions for both liquefaction and transportation of LNG, significant global trade is developing. And high gas prices projected in the American distant futures market have made us a potential very large importer...
...midst of a war to control the world’s food supply it is all too easy for governments to use the African continent as a conveniently distant battlefield. But with this new legislation, it seems the EU has begun to acknowledge the appalling recklessness with which it has treated the developing world and the duty it has to stop plunging vast swathes of Africa further into poverty and underdevelopment. While it is wishful thinking that the U.S. will follow Europe’s lead at the Doha trade talks this September, further subsidy reforms within the EU could...
...addresses of three undecided Democrats in Iowa and asked to send handwritten letters to them. Campaigns are charged $2,500 for the service, a deal referred to by Meetup's founders as the Trippi special. Dean is by far the most popular candidate on Meetup, with Kerry a distant second...
...DICKINSON, 43, a former lounge singer and TIME writer; to take over the Ann Landers advice column; in Chicago. Dickinson will pen "Ask Amy," the successor to Landers' Chicago Tribune column, which was once the most widely read newspaper column in the world. The new agony aunt is a distant relative of poet Emily Dickinson...
...actor." Then he adds, "I was talking to [actor] Harry Dean Stanton the other day and I said, 'Harry Dean, what should I say when people ask me such a thing?' And Harry Dean said, 'I think it's a really insensitive question.'" And there it is, distant but visible, a flash of anger...