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With his nylon socks and cigarette pinched between index finger and thumb, Liu looks like any other small-fry entrepreneur in China's hinterland. Yet for two reasons, he is different. First, his business is oil. Second, he's running from the police. Liu, who declines to reveal his full name, changes his cell-phone number weekly and won't pass two nights in the same bed. His fugitive life is shared by dozens of other wildcat oilmen in northern China's Shaanxi province, where independent drillers are fighting for compensation after the government seized their wells and detained several...
...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Fresh air, clear water, pristine surroundings - it's what every green-minded tourist dreams of. But how can you know for sure whether your potential holiday destination is kind to Mother Nature? Check out the Environmental Sustainability Index (www.yale.edu/esi) compiled by environmental experts at Yale and Columbia universities. The 2005 ESI ranks 146 countries based on 76 measures, such as forest cover and vehicle usage, and is grouped into 21 environmental indicators, such as biodiversity and air quality. This year, Finland and Norway rank first and second...
...fashionable to talk a good green game. In the S&P 100 index of large firms, 39 companies issue "corporate sustainability" reports, disclosing information on their environmental and social performance and in some cases setting targets for which they may be held accountable. Pressure from activists has led Wall Street firms like J.P. Morgan Chase to assess environmental risks when deciding whether to finance projects such as gas pipelines in ecologically fragile regions. In the industrial sector, GE comes tardy to the green party, following firms such as Alcoa, BP, DuPont and Shell, which several years ago set targets...
...greeting as many peoplestaff as well as internsas possible during the summer. Who knows, the staffers said, these contacts might be the key to a job in DC. Youll have a stack of business cards this high, one of them said, putting a considerable gap between her thumb and index finger...
Inflation may not be dead, but it certainly seems to have gone into hiding. The Department of Labor last week reported that the Consumer Price Index fell .4% in March, equaling February's decline. It was the first back-to-back price drop since 1965 and the steepest two-month decrease in more than 36 years. The main cause: declining energy prices, which were off 6.5% for the month...