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- Martin Sandbu: The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil
- Poor countries dream of finding oil like poor people fantasise about winning the lottery. But the dream often turns into a nightmare as new oil exporters realise that their treasure brings more trouble than help.
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, business, energy, iraq, norway, oil, portrait, story by soobrosa
- The Man Who Was Texas
- In the late 1940s, the press informed an astonished America that some of its wealthiest citizens were a group of oilmen that included H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Hugh Roy Cullen. Another of them, the swaggering, combustible Glenn McCarthy, would emer
- 2008-09-24 to business, fame, history, oil, portrait, story by bagoly
- Daniel Roth: Driven - Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road
- They'd buy their car from the operator, who would offer steep discounts, perhaps even give the cars away. The profit would come from selling electricity—the minutes.
- 2008-09-21 to bestof, business, car, co2, electric, global warming, oil, transportation by soobrosa
- The Oil Pimps
- If you pull into a gas station in Islamic Iran, the price at the pump is 40¢ a gallon. In Saudi Arabia—where King Abdullah, the closest Bush-43 Muslim ally in the Mideast said "Sorry, fellah," when President George W. Bush asked him to increase the oil
- 2008-06-05 to business, oil, world by bagoly
- THE ARCTIC OIL RUSH
- As a shrinking ice cap makes it easier to tap the Arctic’s fossil-fuel reserves, Russia has planted its flag deep in the North Pole’s ocean. The race for oil is on, with a vicious cycle in play. In Siberia, Alex Shoumatoff discovers woolly-mammoth skeleto
- 2008-04-26 to bestof, business, global warming, oil, science, story, world by bagoly
- Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
- Researchers are poised to cross a dramatic barrier: the creation of life forms driven by completely artificial DNA.
- 2007-12-19 to bestof, biotech, dna, oil by lipi
- Magic Kingdom or Glass House?
- The inside story of massive wealth, hope for a Middle East in flux, and a dream that could be shattered by one terrorist bombing . . . Dubai, a city that never sleeps
- 2007-12-12 to bestof, business, dubai, oil, uae by bagoly
- Iran leader dismisses US currency
- Iran's oil minister said that this would allow the formation of an OPEC committee to study the dollar's effect on oil prices and investigate the possibility of alternative trading currencies.
- 2007-11-19 to business, oil by darkeye
- Owen Bowcott: Britain to claim more than 1m sq km of Antarctica
- The claim would be in defiance of the spirit of the 1959 Antarctic treaty, to which the UK is a signatory.
- 2007-11-04 to energy, global warming, oil, politics, power.play by soobrosa
- Wagstyl-Escritt: Hungarian differences put aside to pass law
- “It is a brutal attempt by the state to protect private interests. It is not about the public interest,” Bokros said.
- 2007-10-10 to business, mol, oil, private, state by soobrosa
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