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Competing for our attention, on the table is a giant, 33-lb. version of the company's new star product, the Xilion, which in its oversize form suggests a fortune teller's ball. The commercial version is pea size, perfect for necklaces and dangling earrings. True, it's brilliant, throwing off hundreds of sparkles?but unique? Exactly how unique can a rhinestone...
Congressional hearings continue this week on BP's Alaskan oil pipeline. Corrosion led to a spill in March and a shutdown last month. The oil giant faces steep fines and stricter regulations...
...Casta?o's men found us in the village and ordered us back to the speedboat. We were dropped at a shining white beach. Casta?o was waiting for us under a giant tree, his armed guards fanned out across the fields in a wide circle. He explained that in the night raid against the leftist ELN (National Liberation Army) rebels, his men had suffered casualties. He thought Colombia needed a strongman, the iron rule of law. His country had been at war against the Marxists for over 40 years, and someone had to finish them off, without being squeamish. In other...
...fact, it was a kid who got the cooking-show host her new daily daytime talk show (debuting Sept. 18), the only program besides Dr. Phil that Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions has launched. Terry Wood, president of creative affairs for syndication giant King World (which is co-producing the show), arrived home from work a few years ago to find her daughter staring at one of Ray's Food Network shows, all of which, Wood was surprised to learn, the 6-year-old was deeply familiar with. "I said, 'What do you like about her?' And she pointed...
Though confronted with a growing climate crisis, the nation has struggled to find scalable, society-wide solutions--and the political will to enact them. When seven Northeastern states capped emissions of greenhouse gases by utilities last month, we took a giant step forward. But until last week, no American state had been bold enough to approve legislation that caps emissions across all the meaningful economic sectors. California--where 1 of 8 Americans lives--will now require major industrial producers of such gases to reduce emissions 25% by 2020. That means cutting the annual release of carbon dioxide in the state...