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Now: September 2010

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50th Anniversary of OPEC

On September 20, BP hits the five-month mark since its Deepwater Horizon spill began ravaging the Gulf of Mexico. But five months of oily controversy is nothing on five decades. Today, oil behemoth OPEC blows out the candles on 50 ...READ»

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What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»

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Fast History: Jimmy Carter Creates the Department of Energy, 1977

On the heels of crippling gasoline shortages, saber rattling from OPEC, and the abolishment of the Atomic Energy Commission, the modern DOE was established to oversee and regulate the emerging nuclear power industry and to manage ...READ»

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Genomatica Figured Out How to Make Spandex From Sugar Cane

Unstable oil prices have sent companies on a treasure hunt for the next big petrochemical replacement. One such pioneer is San Diego-based start-up Genomatica, which has developed a process that converts sugar (derived from sugar ...READ»

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Reports of the Death of Renewable Energy are Greatly Exaggerated

The reports of the death of renewable energy are greatly exaggerated. The crashing price of oil is driving some to predict the death of renewable energy, again. Oil costs less than half what it did just a few months ago, ...READ»

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Q&A: Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Germinator

The former Mr. Universe is flexing his muscle as governor of California, incentivizing business to solve climate change and other weighty problems.READ»

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Now February

A calendar of events this month.READ»

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Q&A: Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Germinator

The former Mr. Universe is flexing his muscle as governor of California, incentivizing business to solve climate change and other weighty problems.READ»

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The Evolution of Diesel

The Past In response to the 1970s OPEC crisis, GM hastily rolls out diesel engines. Badly engineered diesel technology produces a horrid stench and a lot of noise. Nitrogen-oxide (NOx) emissions cause dense smog in ...READ»

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Slick Read

An insider's journey through the oil industry, from the wells to your wallet.READ»

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The Three Ways of Great Leaders

In a new study, some leading business thinkers identify the attributes of great leadership -- and nominate the best bosses of the 20th century.READ»

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Which Price is Right?

It is an urgent question: How can we increase profits if we can't raise prices? The answer demands revolutionary thinking -- new insights about strategy and human behavior, turbocharged with software, mathematics, and rapid-fire experimentation. Is your company ready to master the new era of pricing? Are you prepared to pay the price of failure?READ»

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There Is No Alternative to ...

How do you develop strategy in an uncertain economy? Meet TINA: There Is No Alternative. First, Royal Dutch/Shell pioneered the system of scenario planning to anticipate dramatic changes in the world. But when everything starts to change, the way to do planning is to focus on things that don't change.READ»

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Tom Peters's True Confessions

On the 20th anniversary of In "Search of Excellence," Peters admits, "I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' "READ»

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Roger Cass, The Last Optimist

Roger Cass is the man who invented the idea of the Long Boom -- the notion that we're only 7 years into a 27-year expansion, the likes of which the world has never seen before. The future, Cass says, is already written. All we need is the confidence to accept it.READ»

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Digital Matters - Issue 35

"What are the rules of the Digital Road?"READ»

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When the Red-Eye Becomes the Green-Eye

Last week, UK-based low-cost airline easyJet announced it had designed an aircraft that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent. They call it the "ecoJet" and claim the design could become reality by 2015. Sounds great, ...READ»

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The End of the Oil Age

Kenneth Deffeyes is professor emeritus of geosciences at Princeton University. The author of Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage offered his insights on the upcoming and ongoing oil crisis and some possible ways to ...READ»