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...Fighter In the twilight of the Atkins age, people are realizing that while carbs may still be an enemy, fat is no friend. Does that mean you have to ditch the deep fryer? Maybe not. Proteus Industries of Gloucester, Mass., has developed a technique to extract proteins from animal muscle, creating a coating for chicken nuggets, fish sticks and other foods that prevents excess oil from penetrating beyond the breading or batter. The food looks similar on the outside, but it's not greasy on the inside. That translates into real fat busting: the overall content in fish sticks...
...Miller sees it, "Five thousand years of commodity-price history" says that oil should be priced at the "marginal cost of production"?the price at which it makes sense for companies to find and extract it from the ground. And that, Miller says, is currently about $40 per bbl. Oil has shot way higher for perfectly rational reasons, from booming global demand to Hurricane Katrina's impact on refining capacity, but overseas producers have every incentive to boost supply at today's prices, says Miller, which should make up for existing shortfalls. "Barring an unforeseen event"?another Katrina...
...Miller sees it, "Five thousand years of commodity-price history" says that oil should be priced at the "marginal cost of production"--the price at which it makes sense for companies to find and extract it from the ground. And that, Miller says, is currently about $40 per bbl. Oil has shot way higher for perfectly rational reasons, from booming global demand to Hurricane Katrina's impact on refining capacity, but overseas producers have every incentive to boost supply at today's prices, says Miller, which should make up for existing shortfalls. "Barring an unforeseen event"--another Katrina...
With the recent advances in terrorist communication, security agencies now face the formidable task of sifting through what Atran called “misinformation” in order to extract valid facts...
Africa’s poverty problems will only be solved when African economies are restructured. Since colonization, these economies have been set up to extract resources from the continent, minimizing both the cost to foreign governments and corporations and the compensation for Africans from whose land comes the minerals, oil, diamonds, and other valuable products. The only real solution to African poverty is to divert the resources of the continent and the wealth they generate back to the people of the continent. This is where our voices are needed...