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By- Suzie-Q @ 1:00 PM MST
Hunting for oil beneath the ice
There’s a new rush for petroleum from Alaska to the North Pole. Can ConocoPhillips and other energy giants find another Saudi Arabia under the ice?
By Barney Gimbel, writer
(Fortune) — It’s 25 below outside, and the heat in the van is busted. Randy Boyer, a burly [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 10:00 AM MST
Layoffs Rise 68 Percent in April
Reuters
Published: Thursday May 1, 2008
NEW YORK (May 1) – U.S. companies’ planned layoffs jumped 68 percent in April from the prior month to the highest since September 2006, pointing to further deterioration in the labor market, a report showed on Thursday.
Planned job cuts in U.S. [...]
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Sudhan @11:35 CET
Dave Lindorff | Common Dreams News Center, May 2, 2008
In the last few days, both the Israeli military and the US military have fired missiles into homes, in an effort to target what they said were terrorists, in the process killing many innocent civilians.
But what a contrast we see in both the reporting [...]
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Michael Tomasky | The Guardian, May 2, 2008
Twice this week now, Hillary Clinton has stood there smiling like the Cheshire Cat as the governor of North Carolina used the word “pansy” and then as a union leader in the same state, who more famously referred to her “testicular fortitude”, went on to inveigh [...]
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