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Still, if China were to discover a major new oil field tomorrow, it takes years to bring production online. So for the next several years at least, China's import requirements will continue to put upward pressure on crude prices. In a report issued last week, the IEA warned that...
It took me some years to realize on what scale Naipaul had made a nuisance of himself. Since the early 1960s, when he began traveling around the world, Naipaul has infuriated not just Indians, whom he called "barbarous, indifferent and self-wounding," but also the citizens of Zaire ("trapped and...
DIED. MAURICE WILKINS, 88, British Nobel laureate who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA; in London. With his colleague (and frequent adversary) Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James...
Fast forward several years. An older Joan (Sasha G. Weiss ’05) is making hats and playfully responding to the advances of her coworker Todd (Alan D. Zackheim ’06). The disturbingly blank-faced mannequins they use (Michael R. Von Korff ’07 and...
Greenspan, a former jazz musician (he played clarinet and sax) and a disciple of free-market philosopher Ayn Rand, frequently confronts such agonizing choices. As the Clinton era drew to a close, he correctly foresaw the brewing bubble in high-tech stocks. He searched for a way to alert investors...