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...financial risk of searching for new fields. In 1998, oil companies drilled 145 exploratory wells in Indonesia; in 2007, as oil prices soared, only 39 were sunk, according to the Center for Petroleum and Energy Economics Studies in Jakarta. Once a major oil exporter and East Asia's sole member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), today Indonesia can no longer meet domestic demand without imports; Jakarta this month suspended its membership in OPEC...
...Northrop-Grumman's bigger plane had given it an edge). Boeing had threatened to pull out of the competition entirely if it didn't get additional time. That would have forfeited the contract to Northrop Grumman, but it also would have galvanized Boeing's congressional allies into opposing the sole-source award to Northrop, whose partner on the tanker project is Europe's Airbus consortium...
...asked readers whether they see Obama as a black man, a healer, a novice, a radical, the future, or "all of the above." You left out the perhaps most important alternative: a leader. The U.S., as sole remaining superpower, needs all the international support it can get for that difficult role. Obama as President would convey an important message to the world: We are your leader not because our military is strong but because we represent your aspirations for freedom. Waruno Mahdi, Berlin...
...presence of these networks is hardly new to long-term residents. For years they have warned officials and police that the owners of the narrow 17th century canalside buildings were charging hugely inflated rents to the sole group of tenants willing to pay them: brothel managers. Buildings were bought and sold within weeks at steep profits, leading officials to conclude that millions of euros were being pumped through the area with little oversight - a perfect environment for large-scale money laundering. Police also say that more and more prostitutes now work for pimps, in violation of Dutch laws that require...
...cruise into Gaza was bracingly celebrity-free. As Jeff Halper, the sole Israeli aboard the "Free Gaza" flotilla, says: "We didn't have anybody famous. It was old-fashioned 'people power.' We just wanted to show what happens when ordinary people from around the world get together to try breaking this immoral siege on Gaza...