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...crime or just a tragic mistake? A Spanish judge opted for the former when he issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers alleged to be responsible for firing a 120-mm tank shell into the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad on April 8, 2003, killing Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and José Couso from the Spanish network Telecinco. Judge Santiago Pedraz's order charged that the Americans had committed a possible "crime against the international community." He said he issued the warrant because his court had received no response to its request for information about legal proceedings under...
...Lately, several major oil companies seem to have got the message. One of Chevron's ads says the world is currently burning 2 bbl. of oil for every barrel of new oil discovered. ExxonMobil says 1987 was the last year that we found more oil worldwide than we burned. Shell reports that it will expand its Canadian oil-sands operations but elsewhere will focus on finding natural gas and not oil. It sounds as though Shell is kissing the oil business goodbye. M. King Hubbert, a geophysicist, correctly predicted in 1956 that oil production in the U.S. would peak...
...same time, oil companies, worried that these changes could leave them behind, are starting to think of themselves instead as broad-based energy companies. "Shell and BP are already headed in that direction," says Amory Lovins, director of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a think tank that advocates a radical restructuring of the energy economy. Shell has become the largest seller of biofuels, he says: "We're talking about new processes for turning woody, weedy plants like switch grass and poplar--also crop waste like wheat straw--into cellulosic ethanol...
Gingrich has long been an advocate of private philanthropy as a replacement for government social programs. Even if no laws were broken, the use of a charity for disadvantaged children as a "shell" account for political activities contributes to an image of meanspiritedness and cynicism that has damaged Gingrich's standing in public opinion polls...
...ready to go.“Every time we fixed a problem that kept us from racing another one came up,” Golden said.The man driving the trailer got lost while out of cell phone service areas, so the pair didn’t know where their shell was.They had no coach, and thus no one to attend the coaches’ meeting, and thus no one to register their team colors, which proved a problem when a race official questioned them on their colors.Despite the adversity, the team known as Schwingg was grabbing plenty of attention...