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Gas Prices: While We Point Fingers, China Takes Action

Just let it be known for the energy record: While Congress digs up oil companies’ tax records, China’s digging for something else: oil. China is plunking down more than $4 billion to gain a foothold in key Nigerian oilfields. This is on top of PetroChina‘s $800 million deal last year …

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Winning an Oscar: Blessing or Curse?

Black cats, broken mirrors and voodoo don’t seem to have anything to do with winning an Oscar. But the superstitious swear that taking home an Academy Award is just as much of a curse as encountering those other, more traditional carriers of bad luck. If that’s true, Reese Witherspoon, Felicity …

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Working the French Way…

Thousands of French, mostly young, demonstrated in Paris on Tuesday demanding the government withdraw a law that would allow French companies to fire workers under the age of 26 who have less than two years on the job. The demonstrators apparently believe that an employer should not have the right …

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