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...main long-term danger to the U.S. is increased reliance on foreign oil. Many business leaders and politicians have taken note that ultralow oil prices are threatening to stunt domestic production. Gerald Greenwald, vice chairman of Chrysler, sees the peril of another oil shock. Says he: "We've been burned twice before, and we see the elements of No. 3 taking shape." ... The oil bust has spoiled the economics of alternative energy as well. Many of the ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate...
...thirds of Bangladesh is now under water, while 1.2 million homes have been washed away region-wide. Out the right side of the cockpit sprawls another equally devastated landscape, this time a drought that has spawned starvation and suicide by thousands of desperate farmers, and even threatens to stunt India's surging economy. At this moment last Wednesday, Singh has orders to fly to the floods where, skirting the wrecks of two other crashed relief choppers, he drops packets of rice, sugar cane, matches and candles to marooned villagers who are crowding onto treetops and roofs. But Singh knows...
...latest stunt in Hollywood marketing. DVDs often include bonus endings and other add-ons. And last year Fox Searchlight, Napoleon's U.S. distributor, extended the box-office life of its horror film 28 Days Later by adding an alternate ending (shot earlier but discarded) weeks after the film opened. But in Napoleon's case, the company actually flew the cast and crew back to Idaho and shot the epilogue after the movie opened. "We thought, Why not borrow something from the DVD playbook?" says Nancy Utley, Searchlight's president for marketing...
...became the acknowledged dragon slayer of surf--a glamorous outsize personality who tested the limits in everything he did, often as camera shutters whirred. A thrill junkie, he surfed the highest waves, bungee jumped from a 700-ft. bridge and broke the European speed record for windsurfing. He even stunt surfed in the opening sequence of the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day. But since childhood Hamilton had been mesmerized by the huge outer reef breaks that appeared after some Pacific winter storms. He regularly surfed the biggest waves he could catch...
...first time, prompting a pair of friends to discuss whether they should pose as brothers. On the other side of the Naples hotel parking lot, a goateed 170-kg Massimiliano Rocco is getting agitated. "I can assure you, they've already picked their contestants. This is just a P.R. stunt." Then why, asks someone, did you bother to come? "The only way I'll ever know that it's not fixed is if they pick me." The hubbub might explain the success of this reality show in Italy. According to the show's producers, Endemol, only Spain - another Latin country...