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What has changed for you since 2006? There is a much greater consciousness about it now. [Energy tycoon] Boone Pickens says he is doing wind power not because of global warming but because of our reliance on foreign energy, but it's still part of that broad mosaic. Al Gore wants to take our electric power grid completely off carbon. There is going to be a new climate change treaty by the end of the year, and hopefully we'll be a signatory to it. It's back on the radar screen politically, and a lot of people are paying...
...year, American authorities are no less interested in bringing him down. The U.S. government is offering a $5 million reward for his capture - a rather meager amount given that Guzman's estimated net worth is $1 billion, putting him at #701 on the Forbes list, between a Swiss oil tycoon and an American heir to the Campbell Soup fortune. And unlike many of his fellow billionaires who've already lost untold fortunes to the global downturn, Guzman's empire likely made even more money in 2008 - a banner year for cocaine trafficking. (See pictures of the U.S.-Mexico border fence...
...vanished main character. For a while, a mini-cottage industry arose around posthumous books by Ernest Hemingway - bullfighting tome The Dangerous Summer, Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast and novels Islands in the Stream and The Garden of Eden. Papa Hemingway's pal F. Scott Fitzergald's The Last Tycoon hit bookstores about a year after his death, while a seemingly endless list of Middle Earth tales, starting with The Silmarillion have been apportioned out over the past thirty years by J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher...
...along with his former business partner Platon Lebedev - also serving eight years on a tax evasion conviction - to face fresh charges of embezzling $25 billion. A conviction could add another 22 years to the current eight-year sentence of which he has served five and a half years. The tycoon was convicted in 2005 of fraud and tax evasion, but prosecutors have introduced the new charges, claiming they are based on evidence brought forward by erstwhile Yukos subsidiary companies. But it is widely believed in Moscow that the new charges may have been brought because Khodorkovsky's will soon have...
...trial, Khodorkovsky and Lebedev will face an old nemesis, prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin, who helped convict the tycoon in 2005. A defense request for the removal of the judge after Khodrokovsky was prevented from sitting outside a cage during the trial was denied, as was a request to change prosecutors. Ten pro-Khodorkovsky demonstrators were arrested earlier this week. The court adjourned on Friday until March 11, pending a defense request to terminate the case on the grounds that the defendant committed no crime...