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Several oil analysts - who predicted earlier this year that oil would reach $200 by year's end - have recently said that oil could drop to $50 a barrel. Merrill's Blanch had oil pegged at $90/bbl for 2008 last month, but he can easily see $50/bbl if there's a global recession. That could be more welcome news for drivers next year. "That's where you could see people use that disposable income to do things like go on vacation," says Medlock. That's assuming they have a job to get away from. But one thing low oil prices...
...want to choose one development that is likely to cause the greatest number of species to reach endangerment or extinction in the next twenty years, it is the oil palm,” said Wilcove, who teaches biology and ecology courses at Princeton...
Purcell also noted that the survey showed potential for young people to take a more active role in politics, and said that the IOP would be sure to reach out to Harvard students in future years...
...since the 1940s - Richard Nixon worked the phones for his successful 1946 run for the U.S. House of Representatives - automated dialing and message playback weren't perfected until the late 1980s. Since then, thanks to improved technology and decreased cost, the campaign tactic has become the leading method to reach voters. In fact, the Pew Research Center found that nearly two-thirds of American households in battleground states like Ohio and Florida received robo-calls in the final weeks of the 2006 midterm elections, with some voters receiving as many as nine calls...
...operation is easy enough to set up; one only needs a computer, the right software, and a DS3 telephone line. At a cost of as little as 5 cents per call, campaigns using this equipment can reach as many as 2,500 households a minute...