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...hottest places for oil exploration in the world. On a global scale, the numbers may seem modest; total proven reserves in the Gulf of Guinea sit at 40 billion barrels, less than one-sixth of Saudi Arabia's 261 billion. But Africa is just getting started. Says Al Stanton, an Edinburgh-based oil analyst with Deutsche Bank: "The opportunities for expansion are tremendous." Driving the oil rush is Washington's search for reliable oil suppliers outside the Middle East - a search made more urgent in the wake of this month's terror bombing of an oil tanker off the coast...
Nevertheless, its overseas expansion isn't likely to be a cakewalk. Krispy Kreme must avoid the mentality of "We like it in America, so you ought to like it too," says John Stanton, a food-industry expert at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. "If it tries to force the American doughnut down the throats of Europeans, it will fail." Stanton argues that Krispy Kreme should market its treats not merely as a fast food, but also as "getting a little bit of Americana." And while the local press in the U.S. eat up Krispy Kreme store-opening stories, European...
...Smoketree complex of $200,000 condominiums because it seemed safe. Even after the abduction, her neighbors wanted the world to know just how convivial a place it can be. "The garage doors open, and people socialize," says Mike Pace, who lives two doors down from the Runnions in Stanton. "We use that as the patio." But when cops arrested 6-ft., 200-lb. Alejandro Avila, 27, for Samantha's rape and murder, residents had to reckon not only with the casual intrusion of evil into their midst but also with the fact that it was no stranger to the neighborhood...
Movie characters light up more often than people do in real life, argues Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who has launched a "Smoke-Free Movies" newspaper ad campaign. His study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, found that on average the 20 top-grossing films featured 50% more instances of smoking an hour in 2000 than in 1960. And an American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco use in films last year occurred in movies rated G, PG and PG-13. With teen smoking up dramatically in the past...
Walt replaces Stanton Professor of the First Amendment Frederick Schauer, who was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow and plans to pursue research on decision making...