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...broadcasting authority, most commentators believe the real impetus was to strengthen the media conglomerates, particularly the Dogan organization. Enormous power, they say, will be vested in the hands of the company that owns eight newspapers and two TV stations, and is also involved in banking, tourism and fuel distribution. Among Dogan's best-known media holdings are two of Turkey's largest newspapers - Hurriyet and Milliyet - and CNN Turk, a joint television venture with CNN, whose parent also owns TIME. The clash over the law goes much deeper, however. At a time when the European Union - which Turkey is keen...
...AIDS and diamonds fuel Africa’s turmoil. Without much effort or expense, America can mitigate the impact of all three. There is a significant possibility that those diamonds in your jewelry came from a cave in Sierra Leone, and were picked by a seven-year-old girl working as a slave to some warlord who then exchanged those diamonds for machine guns. The “blood diamond” trade that links Sierra Leonean children with American consumers is responsible for fueling a war that probably would have fizzled out five years...
...launched the book on one of France's flashiest, trashiest talk shows, and he followed up with a string of controversy-churning TV appearances that further piqued public curiosity. The print press denounced the volume in turn--one paper retitled it The Horrible Swindle--but that too helped fuel purchases. The book has broken the French record for first-month sales, previously held by Madonna...
...April 29]? Decidedly not, but neither were those of his immediate predecessors. All of them and their environmental advisers missed the point. It's not whether we should be exploring for more oil and natural gas on public lands. Instead, we should be investing in technology that promotes renewable fuel sources, such as solar and wind power. Putting our economic and technological muscle into renewable sources will pay far greater benefits than any new drilling plans. BRIAN ILLES Glen Allen...
...meantime, cash-strapped U.S. firms are finding creative ways to meet the demand for power, securing cheaper sources of natural gas (the fuel for many power plants) in Canada and Mexico rather than financing new development domestically. U.S. firms spent more than $27 billion last year buying Canadian oil and gas companies, and the government of Mexico is considering 18 separate U.S. proposals to bring to the Baja peninsula liquefied-natural-gas terminals, which would receive shipments from all over the world and pipe gas to the U.S. European and U.S. energy firms have at least that in common: they...