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...arrest and fled the country, had been planning an attempt to crash a plane into Singapore's Changi Airport. The airport is now reportedly protected by anti-aircraft missiles, as are the huge refinery facilities on the island's southwest section of Jurong, where multinationals such as Shell and Exxon Mobil maintain large facilities. In mid-October Singapore deployed units of its armored division around the area as further safeguards. By Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur...
...invited Amory Lovins to speak at the company. To an audience of 400 managers, Lovins, a globetrotting consultant who makes his home at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, posed questions the group had never heard. How do spiders spin threads stronger than Kevlar but without factories? How might Exxon officials have cleaned up Alaska after the Valdez disaster if they had known that hair absorbs oil better than anything else? Says Haythornthwaite: "He had us eating out of the palm of his hand...
...ENERGY The oil, gas and utility sector is bringing on finance and marketing graduates to help navigate deregulation. Companies such as TXU, Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries are still hiring. A graying work force means the industry also needs to find a new generation of petroleum engineers, geologists and geophysicists...
...Levin targets the brief but headline-making pump-price spikes of spring 2000 and summer 2001 and calls for antitrust action against the industry, he forgets how the got on this merger kick in the first place: the rock-bottom oil prices of 1999. Disappearing profits induced Exxon and Mobil to join forces in search of a vertically integrated economy-of-scale that could find, pump, refine and sell oil without going out business, and the rest of the industry soon followed suit...
Though Bush would later brand Iran part of the "axis of evil," the task force proposed factoring in U.S. energy needs when reviewing sanctions against Iran and Libya. In addition to Exxon Mobil, two other oil giants, Conoco and Phillips Petroleum--each a $25,000 gala donor--have long opposed the sanctions, which deprive them of markets. Conoco president Archie Dunham, an old Cheney pal, visited him March 21 to press the case. Big Oil saw the task force's proposal as a victory, though hopes of lifting sanctions were dashed last summer. Congress voted to renew them...