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...family and Arabic news network al-Jazeera, which received a video that appeared to show her being shot in the head. The Irish-born aid worker fell in love with Iraq after moving there with her Iraqi-born husband in 1972. Through Saddam Hussein's rule and Gulf War bombings she stayed, learning Arabic and converting to Islam. She became a spokeswoman for Iraqi children suffering in the wake of the Gulf...
DIED. REED IRVINE, 82, media watchdog who, in 1969, founded Accuracy in Media, an early protester of "liberal bias" in the media; in Rockville, Md. Among Irvine's targets were CNN's Gulf War reporter Peter Arnett (who Irvine said aired "Saddam's version of the truth"), Hillary Clinton ("kooky") and Dan Rather. He dubbed AIM's persistent call for the CBS anchor's ouster the Can Dan campaign...
Today numerous factors are driving up the price of crude, from chaos in Iraq to turmoil in Nigeria to hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. "It is neither fair nor accurate to blame China for most of the rise in oil prices," says Jeffrey Logan of the Paris-based International Energy Agency. But China's impact should not be ignored. Even if China's blazing GDP growth of 9.1% in the first three quarters of this year (compared with the same period the previous year) slows to 8% in 2005, as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences predicts, the country...
...largely agrarian country was for decades able to produce more crude than it required, a circumstance that the government celebrated as a political victory. ("Study Daqing!" chanted legions of Red Guards during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution.) Oil and gas discoveries in the South China Sea and the Bohai Gulf, where drilling began in 1979, made China seem all the more invulnerable to oil shocks, and the country remained an oil exporter until 1993. Today, however, output from China's top four oil fields is in decline. By some estimates, the country's current proven reserves will be depleted...
...companies regard Libya's oil as some of the best on the planet. Relatively thin, its crude is among the easiest to refine. It also takes far less time for tankers from Libya to reach U.S. ports than those leaving the Persian Gulf. Given the turmoil in Iraq, and the fact that Washington is on chilly terms with Iran, many U.S. oil companies see Libya as a dream prospect. "There's a huge amount of oil that hasn't been discovered," says Michael Thomas, director of the London-based Middle East Association, a trade-promotion group that organized the business...