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Strategic Puzzle Shifts in Mideast

Submitted by loner on 22 February, 2011 - 2:51am

 For more than two decades, the Middle East fell easily into neat strategic pieces like a puzzle: A rock-solid peace treaty tied Egypt and Jordan to Israel; stable, pro-U.S. monarchies lined the length of the Persian Gulf oil channels; autocratic governments across North Africa seemed unshakable.

Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel

Submitted by loner on 31 December, 2010 - 10:32am

 By CHARLES LEVINSON And GUY CHAZAN

TEL AVIV—Two years ago, Ratio Oil Exploration LP, an energy firm here, employed five people and was worth about half a million dollars.
Operations in Noble Energy's Leviathan gas field, the world's biggest deepwater gas find in a decade.
Today it sits at the center of a gas bonanza that has investors, international oil companies, Israeli politicians and even Hezbollah, Israel's sworn enemy, clamoring for a piece of the action.

Lessons Learned by a Prodigal Son

Submitted by loner on 14 November, 2010 - 3:06am

 George W. Bush discusses his boisterous days at Yale—and a memorable showdown with his father

Andrew J. Hall: the British eccentric who made a killing on Wall Street

Submitted by loner on 26 July, 2009 - 2:25am

Every once in a while, says New York magazine, there appears a character who floats above “the wretched, amoral, meatheads” of Wall Street. Andrew J Hall is such a man.

'Suicide germ' may ease mutation fears

Submitted by loner on 19 July, 2009 - 4:11pm

Mainland scientists hope a new "suicide germ" will allay fears of dangerous mutations from genetically engineered micro-organisms (GEMs) released into the environment.

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