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Iran sits atop mammoth energy reserves -about 136 billion bbl. of oil and some 14 trillion cu m of natural gas. But because its refineries are too few and too old, the country refines just two-thirds of the gas it needs to keep its economy working and its 65 million people lit, driving and heated. The remaining third - about 120,000 bbl. a day - has to be imported...
...order for such an event to be successful, it must provide a relaxed atmosphere and abundant food for each person, and neither can be accomplished in a mammoth, school-sponsored setting. Indeed, if we’ve learned one key element of pregame gatherings, it’s that they thrive on intimacy...
...then there's that high-def JumboTron - the world's largest - a mammoth, four-sided, Cleopatra's barge of video screens stretching 160 ft. in length. For many fans, especially the ones in the nosebleed seats, what they see on that screen will be their experience of the game. By comparison, the actual teams will be little dots scrambling on a field far below - except in the rare cases when the two worlds collide. In a much discussed incident during a preseason game at the stadium in August, A.J. Trapasso of the Tennessee Titans managed to bonk the JumboTron with...
North America isn't the only place where people buy movie tickets. Just as much money is to be had abroad, and there the big hits were Harry Potter 6 and ... huh?... Ice Age 3! The CGI comedy has earned a woolly-mammoth $614 million in foreign climes, $200 million more than Transformers and nearly five times as much as Up, which is just opening throughout much of Europe. That means you'll see more prehistoric capers and sequels of all kinds, since the international audience is even more conservative than the American. Black ink for the movie business...
Japan's lost decade is stretching into decades. It has been almost 20 years since the bursting of a mammoth property and stock bubble plunged the country into an economic deep freeze. Japan's leaders have been wandering in the wilderness ever since, unable to find a formula for growth to replace the model that was found wanting years ago. (See the new activism of Japan's youth...