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...happy, they have to go into weirder and wilder parts of the world to augment their reserves: places that are getting more and more expensive to buy into. Try as they might to move into other compelling energy investments whether renewable or otherwise, the market does not seem to reward creative thought among energy executives. As a result most CEO’s are beholden to the unhealthy obsession most investors have with oil reserves...
...Char was not present to hear his sentence. Two days after he had been captured in June 2003, he says, he escaped from the toilet of a police guardhouse. Over the next year, he was the subject of a manhunt, with a reward of $15,000 on his head-this in a nation where the average person makes $2 a day. "People were walking around with guns for weeks hoping to try and kill him," says a rice farmer living in a village close to Phonsavanh, Va Char's hometown. But Va Char managed to elude those seeking him. According...
...will stop the Benedict Arnold CEOs your taxes reward for shipping jobs overseas,” Kerry would promise, in between preppy-on-preppy swipes at Howard Dean, late last year. Now neutralized of its primary season pungence, that message—leveraging the tax code (doing something!) to encourage American companies to retain their relatively expensive domestic labor—remains at the heart of Kerry’s candidacy...
...Meanwhile, Putin's government and its Chechen opponents have begun a strange bidding war. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) offered a reward of US $10.3 million to anyone who could help them capture Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov and his field commander Shamil Basaev, believed to be one of the architects of last week's school siege. A few hours later, Maskhadov's government-in-exile upped the ante by posting a US $20m reward for the capture of "the war criminal" Putin...
...shady friend to acquire it for five grand but decided not to sell. Then, when I was going home to Washington State for summer break and was about to run out of gas near Berkeley, I decided to take the scroll to its rightful owners and claim the $500 reward that had been offered for it. The curator was very nice and told me I could leave because I returned the scroll unharmed. I said that I wanted the reward. He said, "O.K., if that's the way you want it," and called in the police...