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Many expect prices to head lower, but suppliers have little marginThe recent trajectory of oil prices — a fairly steady increase followed by a much more vertical rise — has a familiar look to it. Remember those charts of tech stocks and housing prices? It's hard not to wonder: Are oil prices forming the next big “bubble?"Those who see a bubble forming say you need look no further than ....

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For the second time in two months, a bunch of Los Angeles bike advocates calling themselves Crimanimalz took to one of the busiest freeways in the world to make the case that, when your freeways are gridlocked, bikes are better.About 30 cyclists rode onto the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) at the height of Friday's rush-hour commute and went east to the San Diego Freeway (I-405), where they rode ....

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For some time there has seemed (and I use the word 'seemed' quite consciously) to be a skewing of power away from blogs, in that someone who makes a stray offending comment might, say, be summarily dismissed from their jobs. In this misperception it is easy to assume that a blog is actually an achilles heel, it's a useful device to sabotage someone you don't like. And we're ....

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Resignation at CNN Shows the Growing Influence of BlogsWith the resignation Friday of a top news executive from CNN, bloggers have laid claim to a prominent media career for the second time in five months.In September, conservative bloggers exposed flaws in a report by Dan Rather; he subsequently announced that on March 9 he would step down as anchor of the "CBS Evening News." On Friday, after nearly two ....

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The airline industry has no future.The same is true for airfreight. No air carrier has a viable plan to make a profit with oil at current prices—much less in years to come as the petroleum available to world markets dwindles rapidly. That's not to say that jetliners will disappear overnight, but rather that the cheap flights we've seen in the past will soon ....

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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s summer movies promise to be a little fresher, more original and funnier than usual. And that could be a problem for an industry that has done well lately by peddling the familiar.“Iron Man” and “Speed Racer” — the first two entries in the big-ticket season of May through August — both point to the challenge facing a business obsessed with comparisons: last summer’s crop of ....

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Revisiting the madness of Henry VIIIKing Henry VIII: [to Anne] And what would you know of great men?Anne Boleyn: I'd know one, if he were before me.King Henry VIII: Do you see one here?Anne Boleyn: [walks about the hall, surveying the men] Looking, my lord.Anne Boleyn: [stops in front of the King and smiles] Ah, found one.It is doubtful whether King Henry VIII or any of his wives ought ....

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