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...year, presents users with two search boxes: what and where. The results are drawn from the 2 million business listings held by Yell.com, the online version of the U.K.'s Yellow Pages, and augmented with detailed maps showing the precise location of the desired establishments. Follow a link and Google Local will even draw the route for you. Why would Yell, whose own site offers similar services, sell info to a competitor? "It's a benefit to the advertisers who pay us money," says Yell spokesman John Salmon. Paying for more prominent listings, he says, gives companies "an additional shop...
Many activists link Unocal’s involvement in a Burmese oil pipeline as a way in which the company is complicit in gross human rights abuses, pointing to forced labor and mandatory relocation of residents in the area. But it seems that BAM should check the facts...
...benefit from better research. Without properly considering all the options before taking such a drastic step such as calling for divestment, BAM loses legitimacy and value. BAM should not attempt to capitalize on the success of the PetroChina cause, since the situations are entirely different. PetroChina had a concrete link to business in Sudan and the state-sponsored genocide. The company appeared to be a back-door way to unethically invest money in Sudan, given that the U.S. prohibits any direct investment in Sudan. Unocal, since it lacks substantial business in Burma, is a useless target for divestment, and thus...
...should spend more time researching possible alternatives to help the situation in Burma. While one cannot necessarily claim a causal link, oil seems to be a common link between companies and repressive regimes. Perhaps BAM should look into the effect that oil consumption has on these regimes. That is, it’s conceivable that a regime would be crippled if cut off from its oil revenue. It might be useful to explore the possible benefits of promoting alternative energy sources and energy consumption on campus...
...following. He was close friends with Mickey Mantle—“Nice guy, great ballplayer” Silvera says of the Mick—and warmed up Don Larsen before his legendary perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Silvera even played with Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee link from the Gehrig/Ruth days to the fifties and sixties of Mickey Mantle...