At a business conference in Sydney, Australia, Steve Forbes suggested that President Bush sell the US oil reserves and warned that the price of oil represents a speculative bubble. According to Radio Australia: FORBES: One way to bring the price of oil down would be to stop buying for strategic petroleum reserve, which has over 700 million barrels
The International Herald Tribune imagines a world without copyright. The article discusses the use of copyright today as “the tool that conglomerates in the music, publishing, imaging, and movie industries use to control their markets.” The authors understand the core of the issue as they state that “[c]ultural monopolists desperately want us to
It looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer for the downfall of a corrupt regime on the big screen. Warner Bros. has postponed the release date of the Wachowski brothers’ “V for Vendetta” from Nov. 4 to March 17, citing post-production delays. Of course, this has nothing to do with the recent violence in London. Nevertheless, “people should
...from overgrown grass. Code enforcement officers, or “grass cops,” roam Maryland neighbourhoods to check on residents who are not in compliance with rules about overgrown lawns. The AP article states that letting grass grow more than a foot high is illegal. 8 inches is the limit in Baltimore City. But, don’t fret, if you forget to cut your
The esteemed military historian Martin van Creveld has a trenchant article in the latest issue of The Forward where he suggests President Bush be impeached and put on trial “for misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 BC sent his legions into Germany and lost them”. Dr. van Creveld is mostly
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