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Americans already pay considerably less than the Europeans and Japanese for gas - it's one of the reasons we've been able to subsidize a wasteful SUV lifestyle for so long. A smart tax would stabilize the price of gas at a high enough level to discourage driving - and it...
Highlight Reel: 1. On possible explanations for the pharmacological boom: "Several factors may have contributed to the increased use of antidepressant medications. Perhaps most important, major depression may have become more common ... [several antidepressants] were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat depressive and anxiety disorders ... [and...
With the long nuclear winter finally over, you might think that execs at Areva, the world's biggest nuclear-energy company, are strutting just now. But you'd be wrong. The state-owned French giant is scrambling not just to rectify a series of snafus at a high-profile reactor...
Areva has benefited from nuclear power's second coming as much as any other company. But its 2008 profits - $824 million on $18.4 billion in sales - were down 17% from 2007, due mostly to a whopping $2.4 billion write-down linked to construction troubles with its Finland reactor. The Finnish...
Indeed, the former President's trip to Pyongyang evokes the never-ending back-to-the-future quality of dealing with North Korea. "They've repeated the same pattern over the past two decades," says Yun Duk-min of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security in Seoul, a Foreign...