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...which kicked up a big fuss over the Erika spill, is frustrated because Total continues to use a leaky pipeline in Siberia and wants the company to show a greater commitment to developing renewable-energy sources such as wind and solar power. "The level of dialogue with BP or Shell is totally different," says Bruno Rebell, Greenpeace's head of international programs. At Henderson Global Investors, which manages about $127 billion in assets, fund managers also think Total needs to do more. A September 2001 accident at a Total fertilizer plant in Toulouse that killed 30 people raised questions about...
...corporate social responsibility and sustainable development are hot trends that have spawned a fast-growing industry of consultants, accountants, and legal and p.r. specialists. All but six of Britain's top 100 companies now publish details of their environmental or social policies. Some firms, including Total's European rivals Shell and BP, are even making ethics a focal point of their marketing. "Profits. Principles. Or Both?" reads the tag line in a series of recent Shell ads that advocate striking a balance between affordable energy and the social and environmental costs of providing...
More challenging is a problem with the landing platform--something that could interfere with Spirit's very ability to move. The rover descended to the surface in a hard, three-petaled shell that was protected by the now famous swaddling of air bags. On the ground, the bags deflated and the petals opened, providing Spirit with three possible exit ramps onto the surface. The problem is, one of the ramps--the best one, as it happens, since the rover does not have to turn around to reach it--is partly obstructed by the collapsed bags...
Does this empty shell represent the future of American manufacturing? With cheap labor in China and other developing nations producing quality products at rock-bottom prices, can America still compete? Or are we now an office nation, completely removed from the industries that built the modern U.S. economy...
...Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented young Silk, torn between the pulls of family and future. Hopkins is almost convincing as the tragic hero, and Nicole Kidman is less so as the battered Faunia, the cleaning woman who pulls Silk out of his shell. Much like Silk himself, the film is a prisoner of its own ambitions, falling victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel. The Human Stain is a story better left in print...