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Exxon shareholders are mostly on Raymond's side. The boss, after all, has delivered on profits 10 years running --to the tune of $25 billion in 2004 alone."We don't think the technology for renewables--whether solar or biomass--can support a profitable business," says Stuewer. Electricity generated by solar, she notes, is five times as expensive (for now) as that produced by gas or coal. Exxon is investing in Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project, she says, to develop breakthroughs in solar, biofuel, hydrogen and even coal technologies that could be offered cheaply and profitably to developing...
...White, Inc., from Sept. 15 through 17.* The survey also showed that the President is making progress in one of his avowed aims: to make Americans feel better about themselves and their country. There has been modest but steady improvement in the national mood during Reagan's tune in office. Slightly more than one-third of the people (36%) agree that the state of the nation is good; only 18% held that view in January. At the same time, the number of people describing the state of the nation as "not good" has declined from 82% to 64% since...
...some community, but last week's example was notable because it occurred in one of the wealthiest and most stable suburban communities in the U.S.: Greenwich, Conn. There, in a city that has no serious racial or community problems, the intruders damaged the high school to the tune of more than $10,000 and forced it to close down...
...married to a woman too busy to pamper him, is ready for some fat-and-sassy attention. Which means that when they eventually come to intimacies, things turn out just fine: softcolored lights, unforced endearments, a jolly bathtub wallow and the strains of Marianne's favorite pop tune, Sugarbaby, percolating in their ears. This is about where Writer-Director Percy Adlon (Celeste, The Swing) gets carried away with his odd-couple romance. Gooey gels clot the lens, and the camera sways without reason like an inebriated gyroscope; bring a neck brace. But Adlon holds his focus on his heroine...
Last week two leading cable services, Home Box Office and Cinemax, which are both owned by Time Inc., acted to stymie this practice. The firms began scrambling their satellite transmissions so that dish owners who try to tune into those cable networks will get nothing but a garble. Fourteen other cable programmers, including MTV, CNN and Showtime, will follow suit. Showtime will start scrambling its signals...