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...mandi system, there was little chance for improvements. Then Metro convinced the southern state of Karnataka, home to high-tech hub Bangalore, to change its laws to allow the company to deal with farmers directly. Within months, the federal government was leaning on other states to follow suit. A huge opportunity had arrived...
...bulletin boards can furnish would-be saboteurs with instructions on launching their own strike. And defending against these attacks is tricky. Large corporations can invest in clever hardware that detects odd patterns of requests for its websites and routes away the suspicious ones. Smaller firms, not used to handling huge volumes of traffic and lacking a big budget for security, are more exposed. And in the face of massive onslaughts like those against Estonia, even government networks can be brought down...
...institute Chatham House in London, the U.S. imported more oil from Africa than from the Middle East in 2005, and more from the Gulf of Guinea than from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait combined. Nigeria, the giant of the region, supplies 10-12% of U.S. oil imports. "There's a huge boom across the region," says Erik Watremez, a Gabon-based oil and gas specialist for Ernst & Young. "Exploration, drilling, rigs, pipes. It's exploding." Ann Pickard, Shell's regional executive vice president for Africa, agrees: "The Gulf of Guinea is an increasingly important place...
...reserves for decades, but war made them hard to reach. Now peace and high prices have made them alluring again. Today Angola is the second-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa, and production is growing 25% a year. Since 2002, businessmen have been flying into Luanda offering huge sums in return for access to oil, while foreign governments have bolstered their case with aid. China has made a habit of outbidding the world here. In 2004, years of talks over structural reforms between Angola and the International Monetary Fund became redundant when a state-run Chinese bank offered...
...some places, like the bloodied border city of Nuevo Laredo, frightened media simply avoid covering the violence. But Cambio Sonora is the first paper to close. "It's huge," says Carlos Lauria, Americas coordinator for the New York--based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). "It points up the inability of the Mexican authorities to provide security in the face of this threat...