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Last week, President Barack Obama made good on a campaign promise by proposing to open new American waters to drilling for oil and natural gas. However, by promoting fossil-fuel usage and threatening these off-shore ocean ecosystems, he is failing to make good on protecting the environment...
...aboutface, which followed longstanding demands from Washington, ended Libya's isolation from the West. Trade embargoes and an air blockade that had sealed most Libyans from the outside world for decades were lifted. In late 2008 the U.S. confirmed its first ambassador to Tripoli since 1972. More than 100 oil companies, including U.S. majors like Chevron and ExxonMobil, and European giants such as BP and Royal Dutch Shell, arrived to tap Libya's vast oil reserves, betting that the country would become an energy powerhouse. Construction crews now bang and clatter across Tripoli, building apartment and office towers, Western hotels...
...opposed are members of the revolutionary committees, who have garnered wealth and political benefits through their close association with Libya's leader. "There are a lot of people for whom reform is not in their personal interest," says Shukri Ghanem, a former Prime Minister who heads the Libyan National Oil Corporation. "It will not be a walk in the park...
George Peppard was signed to play the superrich Blake Carrington in Spelling's Dynasty, but "creative differences" led to Forsythe's replacing him at the last minute. A nighttime soap opera about an oil family, Dynasty was indebted to the hit series Dallas, but Spelling brought his high glitz, and Forsythe his gravitas. Joan Collins played Blake's first wife Alexis and Linda Evans his second wife Krystle. The show cemented network TV's hold on serial drama, hooking millions of viewers week to week, long before HBO filched the franchise with The Sopranos...
...daughter Fallon and his son Steven (who both survive the rumors); attends a wedding that is shot up by Moldavian rebels; loses his fortune; tries to strangle Alexis; is charged with arson when the hotel he owns burns down, then saves his son Ben from a burning oil rig; loses his memory and regains it; finds a donor for a heart transplant for his and Krystle's child Krystina, then hears that the donor's mother has kidnapped Krystina; runs for governor of Colorado, against Alexis; loses the race, and nearly loses Krystle when she suffers a brain tumor...