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Like a Vice Tax David von Drehle summarized it well in "Oil's Silver Lining" [Nov. 19]: The $100 barrel gives us another chance to change our ways. It's a true gift to the planet from the present economic circumstances. And rest assured, prices are not likely to drop. How could they, since worldwide discovery of oil peaked in 1964? In China and India, hundreds of millions of households dream of getting a car or even two. Let's hope the exponential rise of oil prices will guide us all toward greener aspirations that will encourage the production...
Cutler is ranked 28th on the list, between activist blogger Xavier Von Erck and Iggy, the 6-month-old dog adopted by TV show host Ellen DeGeneres...
...Bomb was created by Katharina P. Cieplak-Von Baldegg ’06-’07 and Camilla A. Hrdy ’04-’05 in 2004 to much media fanfare. After releasing two issues, the magazine stopped printing due to financial difficulties...
...Defense experts disagree on the seriousness of the Pentagon's funding crunch. Of course, if war - as the great Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz put it - is simply the continuation of politics by other means, it should be no surprise that funding a war as controversial as Iraq will be a highly contentious business. And while the Pentagon can surely move money between its various funding streams to keep the war going for a while, it's also obvious that the Bush administration is counting on a political backlash to force the Democrats to back down, as they...
...ship the first FDA-approved DNA diagnostic chips to labs in the U.S. The tiny gene detector, named AmpliChip, can help physicians assess how sensitive patients are to many commonly prescribed drugs. But will doctors order the test, which could cost $520? "We need to drive awareness," admits Heino von Prondzynski, global head of Roche Diagnostics. "Physicians usually don't know what to do with this information." Roche will also have to persuade insurers to cover the expense. It does have the stats on its side: adverse drug reactions take more than 100,000 lives and add $136 billion...