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...million gal. Amount of wine France and Italy plan to distill into fuel or disinfectant, to avoid a wine glut and keep prices...
...been wonderful being outside the media scrum for a while," Stengel said, of his two years away from journalism at the National Constitution Center. "I started consuming news like a regular person. It's been a good lesson. I think what Time can do in this age of media glut is to be the guide, to help people separate the wheat from the chaff, to give them the information they need to know." He takes over officially on June...
...student can be eligible to use federal aid at a particular school, the Department of Education uses the ratings of private firms to evaluate physical colleges. The current lack of a universal accreditation for online schools should not stand in the way of an otherwise worthy initiative. The glut of for-profit schools in the online school industry raises questions about the fairness of the government subsidizing students attending these schools. But the government should not refrain from funding students at online schools just because those schools happen to be for-profit institutions. Such a move would cause unjustifiable harm...
...produces close to 90% of the world's heroin. While the U.S. and Afghan governments have announced measures to curb poppy cultivation, a visit to Helmand reveals how challenging such a campaign would be. Just outside Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, lies a vast expanse of poppy farms. A glut has driven down the market price, but the flower is still the country's most profitable crop, according to farmers. Officials predict this year's yield in Helmand will be double last year...
...decline, which goes back to the energy crisis of the 1970s, has been accelerating lately, compounded by competition from Japanese and Korean brands, another burst of high gasoline prices, the bankruptcy of its largest parts supplier, Delphi, in Troy, Mich., and perhaps most critically, a glut of SUVs and sedans. For all those reasons, Wall Street is discounting GM's chances of survival. Bearish analysts say there's a 40% chance the company will go bust in a couple of years. "The forces working on the auto industry--not just on GM--are gigantic," says Gerald Meyers, a former chairman...