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...romance novels. Factor in hardback sales, and romances account for about 40% of the fiction total. Almost 1 of every 5 adult books sold is a romance novel. Those 37.9 million women readers could devour three romances every day of the year and still not exhaust the annual output of some 2,000 new titles...
...clear to the oil-producing nations of OPEC that it means business over rocketing energy prices. The reality, though, is delicate: The politics of oil involves the balancing of U.S. economic interests against the nation's strategic concerns, and that is why the U.S.'s efforts to increase oil output, led by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, have taken the form of persuasion rather than threat. "The reason is that in the U.S.'s relationship with a number of oil-producing countries, economics takes a backseat to politics," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. After all, OPEC and its allies...
...Kyoto treaty commits the U.S. and other industrialized nations to cut their output of carbon-based gases - which governments blame, in part, for global warming - back to their 1990 levels by the year 2012. Right now, though, U.S. output levels are still increasing annually, and cutting them will require some painful sacrifices in the world's most evolved car culture. Short of banning gas-guzzling SUVs and risking a revolution, adding tax remains, as Europeans have found, the most effective way to curb consumption. After all, even at $2 a gallon, gas is still a bargain compared with the inflation...
...strike was Tapper's 30th of the season, which is more than double the output of Harvard's leading goal-scorer, freshman center Dominic Moore, who finished his rookie year with...
...whose leaders have been just as enterprising as the old kingpins. When Peru and Bolivia put the squeeze on coca cultivation, the traffickers moved their crops to southern Colombia, which the government in Bogota had largely ceded to Marxist guerrillas. Then, improved refining techniques enabled traffickers to increase output. To combat the growers, the White House has asked for $1.6 billion in aid. For foreign aid, it's a staggering sum. If Congress approves the money--and Republicans there seem eager to--Colombia will become the third largest recipient of U.S. assistance, behind Israel and Egypt...