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...many buyers of Iraqi oil, often using middlemen, deposited a total of $229 million in illegal surcharges--of 10˘ to 30˘ per bbl.--into bank accounts controlled by the Iraqi government. Meanwhile, exporters of food, medicine and other items paid nearly $1.6 billion in kickbacks, often contracted as "inland transportation" or "after-sales service" fees...
With basketball's popularity surging in China, Heidi Ueberroth, 40, is taking the game beyond Beijing. As the NBA's top global marketing and media exec, she recently brokered deals to broadcast games for the first time in four inland regions, including Chongqing (pop. 32 million) and Inner Mongolia (pop. 24 million). She also struck a deal with China Mobile, which will offer NBA highlights to 231 million cell-phone subscribers, and added eight new marketing partners in China, like video-game giant EA Sports and computer maker Tong Fang. This season Chinese fans will be able to watch...
...been losing, in some places, as much as 35 ft. of beach a year, according to biologist David Richard, a specialist in the area's wetlands. By the time Rita hit, he says, the Gulf of Mexico was more than a quarter of a mile closer to the inland cities than it was when Hurricane Audrey struck...
...Corps can build the levees higher and stronger, but New Orleans didn't always rely on engineering bravado to save it from Gulf storms. Until this century, the city counted on a three-tiered defense: barrier islands to break the waves, wetlands to absorb storm surges and inland cypress forests to slow the winds. All have been disappearing...
...auteur behind “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive,” the TV show “Twin Peaks,” and “Eraserhead” is strange. In addition to continuing to direct—“Inland Empire,” his next film, is out next year and he continually updates his website davidlynch.com with short films—Lynch has created the David Lynch Foundation to support transcendental mediation...