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Oddly, Russia will chair the Group of Eight this year, at a time when its president behaves like another authoritarian leader sitting on vast fossil fuel reserves—Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Furthering his “Bolivarian” revolution and profiting from his oily dollars, Chávez is buying military equipment from Spain and AK-47s (guess where from) for his growing “security forces.” As the Bush administration turns its eyes away from Latin America, Chávez buys influence in the region by aiding Caribbean economies...
...turns out, few lessons were learned from the oil crises of the past, even when Western Europe reduced its dependency on oil. Instead, Europe turned its reliance to gas—largely from Russia. And today, exorbitant fossil fuel prices give unprecedented power to leaders like Putin and Chávez—leaders that, in many cases, started rightfully defending the interests of their nations after damaging laissez-faire regimes featuring rotten privatization programs. Yet, as the case of Ukraine showed last week, they often...
...that one sex is more sensitive than the other. We must lead by example, not meaningless rhetoric. Erol Palantekin Dublin, Ohio, U.S. The Solar Solution Your story on the French nuclear-energy industry said that because of the recent spike in oil prices and environmental concerns about fossil-fuel emissions, nuclear power is looking attractive again [Nov. 14]. But the sun is also a proven source of energy, and the technology for tapping into solar power is available. In one of the simplest of several variations, an array of mirrors focuses sunlight on a tank filled with water, heating...
...thumbs up as the band raced into final number “Mountain Man,” only stopping as the house lights went up. As I headed out to ice my ear drums, the crowd remained, trying to coax out just a little more of that preciously crude fossil fuel...
...that we needed it, but2005 reminded us again thatfossil fuels are finite and that poverty and terrorism seem to be inexhaustible. The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers this year include entrepreneurs who are working to alleviate pain at the pump as well as human suffering. They produce energy-sparing new approaches to solar power, nanolighting and even a handheld haz-mat detector. Others are doing amazing work in creating synthesized disease killers, minting silver bullets for pathogens or using stem cells to cure heart disease. On the security front, there are new analyzers, sensors and antivirus hardware that...