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...fact, much of Hall's ability to produce outsized profits for Citi comes from the creative ways he had found to make money off the oil markets, doing things that would either be impossible for the average small trader or that most traders just won't think of. Earlier this year, for instance, Hall and his traders rented a tanker and filled it with 1 million barrels of oil. Oil prices were down, but most traders thought they were going up again, so futures contracts pegged to distant-month deliveries were expensive. The better deal was the real thing...
These clever, if rudimentary, Web destinations are dubbed "single-serving sites," and they range from marginally useful (IsItChristmas.com answers "No" 364 days a year) to handy (HowMuchIsAStamp.com) to the surprisingly interesting (HowManyPeopleAreInSpaceRightNow.com). Not all the sites answer questions; some just state facts. The legume featured in ThisPeanutLooksLikeADuck.com is, indeed, uncannily ducklike. Eighty-eight-year-old Godfather actor Abe Vigoda is still alive, according to the one fact available at AbeVigoda.com...
Simple, tongue-in-cheek websites date to the early days of the Internet - Purple.com has depicted a plain purple screen since 1994. In fact, emulating the clunky look of early websites is part of the fun, says Percy. "The way I built [the Balloon Boy site] is exactly how I would have done it in 1996. There's a lot of nostalgia involved." Tech blogger Jason Kottke coined the "single-serving" moniker and listed some favorites in a 2008 blog post - a move that prompted a rush of new entries, Greenberg says. Around the same time, writer Mathew Honan created...
...killer quake because it sits astride one of the world's most active fault lines - was crowded with poorly built buildings that crumbled when the earth shuddered on Sept. 30. Similarly, in the Philippines, the vast flooding triggered by Ketsana was largely the result of insufficient drainage. In fact, the U.N. estimates that when equivalent populations in the Philippines and Japan endure the same number of tropical cyclones each year, 17 times more people perish in the Philippines than in Japan. The higher death tolls feed a vicious cycle: constantly struggling to recover from the latest storm or quake, developing...
...David Von Drehle's profile highlighted some of what sets Beck outside the realm of fact-based, civil political discourse - notably his statement that the President has a "deep-seated hatred of white people." That statement is part of a consistent pattern of race-baiting by Beck. This summer, ColorofChange.org began asking advertisers to stop supporting Beck's TV show because our members are concerned about the way he stokes racial paranoia and fear with inflammatory rhetoric that's not based in fact. Dozens of companies listened and pulled their ads. It's clear that much of corporate America already...