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...allies can persuade Russia to abstain when the question of applying sanctions against Iran eventually comes to a head, Washington still needs China aboard. Second, Beijing imports a huge and growing amount of oil and gas, and an increasing portion of that is bound to come from the Persian Gulf. Third, Beijing wouldn't be directly threatened if Iran got the bomb. Now put yourself in Hu's shoes. Your two biggest trading partners, the U.S. and the E.U., are soon going to come pleading with you not to vote against sanctions that, if they are to have any meaning...
...Labor Department expects two million new jobs this year on top of the 1.7 million created last year. Helping to fuel what could be the hottest job market so far in the 21st century: massive rebuilding on the Gulf Coast and stepped-up gas and oil exploration and drilling amid higher energy prices...
...from Canada, except for about 1% imported from such countries as Trinidad and Nigeria by tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG). That equation is shifting. Production in the U.S. has slipped, down an estimated 5% in 2005, largely but not entirely because of storm damage to facilities in the Gulf. Meanwhile, Canada is consuming more of the gas it produces, leaving less to export. In short, we aren't getting enough gas to meet demand--a combustible formula for high prices...
...thousands of households every day to find people who have been displaced by the hurricane.Kessler said that he expected to find differences between the results from the New Orleans survivors—who mostly faced damage because of levee damage—and those from elsewhere in the Gulf Coast. “People in Mississippi and Alabama had an act of nature occur to them, whereas in New Orleans, a lot of people think it’s not an act of nature, it’s an act of bureaucratic inefficiency,” he said...
When the raging flood-waters of Hurricane Katrina swept away the campuses, and plans, of Gulf Coast college students, they could have spent their semesters waiting and wallowing. But, for the 25 Tulane students who took refuge at Harvard this semester, the setback became an opportunity for an unusual adventure.From the House system and nightlife to advising and academic competition, Harvard was, for these students, a far cry from their school in the Big Easy. Almost all 25 students are set to return to Tulane this week, taking with them mixed impressions of their semesters in Cambridge.Of the 10 Tulane...