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...officials told an OPEC summit last December that they too would cut production, the country "has repeatedly failed to do so, and the Russian government has done absolutely nothing to exert its influence" on oil companies, says Julian Lee, senior analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London. (See pictures from Azerbaijan's oil boom...
...Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy appealed for new limits on oil speculators in order to curb "dangerously volatile" prices. That idea is expected to be debated during the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa., later this month. (See a TIME video from the previous G-20 meeting in London...
...would go on to visit Peru, London, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Egypt, Greece, and three cities in China in a span of two months...
...9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington - like those that preceded them in East Africa in 1998 and those that followed in London, Madrid, Bali and other places - were tactical successes in that they managed to kill hundreds of innocent people, grab the world's headlines and briefly dominate the nightmares of Western policymakers. But the strategy those attacks were a part of has proved to be fundamentally flawed. Terrorism departs from the rules of war by deliberately targeting the innocent, but it shares the basic motivational force of conventional warfare - "the pursuit of politics by other means...
...Sanjay Sharma disagrees. A cardiologist at King's College Hospital in London and one of the authors of the British Journal of Sports Medicine's study, Sharma believes that results from Italy - which instituted a nationwide ECG screening program for athletes in 1983 - provides enough evidence of the effectiveness of an ECG to override the AHA's concerns. Analyzing data from 42,000 athletes in the northeastern Veneto region of the country from 1979 to 2004, Italian researchers found that ECG screening resulted in an almost 90% drop in sudden cardiac deaths. Incidence of SCD among the unscreened nonathletic population...