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...prices as low as $5 per bbl. Rich then supplied the oil to the Texas firms at the legal price. The Texas companies, according to federal officials, laundered the crude through a series of purchases so that it was difficult for Government regulators to trace the oil's origin. Then the Texans sold it back to Marc Rich's New York subsidiary at a profit as high as $20 per bbl. Marc Rich then sold the laundered crude to American oil companies at the higher price. Finally, according to the indictment, a secret arrangement required the two Texas...
Last week, 30 years after the publication of their stunning report in the scientific journal Nature, a star-studded group gathered in Boston to commemorate an event that has been compared to the appearance of Darwin's Origin of Species or Einstein's papers on relativity. For three days, speaker after speaker, among them five Nobel laureates including Watson and Crick, talked eloquently about recent findings of the biological revolution...
...very interesting story of September 27 about Professor Sacvan Berkovitch and the origin of his first name. The Crimson stated that the famous anarchist Sacco and Vanzetti, "were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare." They were not indicted for treason but for killing a guard during an armed robbery, and they were not hanged but electrocuted, as I have first-hand reason to know...
...advice, your advisor will probably shrug and say. "It's your life." In this country, says Russian emigre Edward Limonov, we have no patience for anyone but ourselves. Without even listening, we use the formula "that's your problem," which the author calls "the most murderous expression since the origin of mankind...
...American figures show that goods of Chinese origin totaled 0.9% of all U.S. imports. The Chinese do not include in their figures goods transshipped through Hong Kong for reexport...