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...base has been shredded, forcing New Orleans to limp along on about a quarter of its usual income of $400 million to $500 million per year. The city has lost an estimated $1.5 million a day in tourism revenues since Katrina, and only a quarter of the 3,400 restaurants are open. Moody's has lowered the city's credit rating from investment grade to junk. The latest insult? The nation's flood-insurance program ran out of money for the first time since its founding in 1968, and some insurers temporarily stopped issuing checks...
...investment in exploration and production will lead to greater supply in coming years. "There's more than enough reserve base," says Craig Pennington, energy analyst at Schroders. By 2010 crude will average $36 per bbl. as new technologies and new fields in formerly unreachable regions of Russia and the Middle East add more than 3 million bbl. a day to global supply, he predicts...
...bottom half of the national income distribution. The “problem of equal opportunity” that Summers spoke of was right in front of him. How the College has subsequently marketed HFAI epitomizes its struggle to maintain Harvard’s dual identity. Byerly Hall, home base for Harvard’s undergraduate admissions operation, must walk a fine line between accessibility and exclusivity in its efforts to recruit middle- and low-income applicants for the initiative...
...investigative subsidiary group of Congress, reported recently that top FDA officials decided to reject the application of Plan B months before the government scientific review of the application was complete. The FDA is supposed to be a nonpartisan agency, and its role is to gauge the safety of drugs based upon scientific research. Its role is not, in any capacity, to judge drugs along party lines. It appears that the decision concerning this drug was partisan, because the decision to keep Plan B off the shelves was made by the highest-ranking members of the FDA before the scientific reviews...
...past "defense of the black violence in Iraq.") In justifying the slaughter, a statement from Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's Jordanian-born leader in Iraq, explained that the Amman hotels were targeted because they were "used as a garden for the Jews and Christians...as a base for infidel intelligence forces who are conspiring against Muslims...