MORE OIL AND OTHER STORIES

(2006) BUSINESSWEEK/ 9/18/

38/ MORRISON/ MORE OIL HAS BEEN DISCOVERED

There should be an increase in oil by 25% by 2015 in the Gulf of Mexico. It is far down in the ocean, but it is there.

48/ EINHORN ET. AL

Technology is coming to China so they can spy on their people as most of other industrialized countries do including the USA .Special emphasis is placed on dissidents and those who believe in the wrong politics or religion.

54/ CAREY

More of the senate and house are leaning toward anti-global warming strategies. Republicans feel particularly vulnerable and are moving to the green side.

112-113/GREEN

ADAM SMITH WAS NOT A FREE MARKETER! A new book looks into his life and his ideas.

He graduated with a degree in moral philosophy and wanted a more humane capitalism then what he saw developing in his time. Smith appears to be a fair trader and was worried about the exploitations of the merchant class.

(2006) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PEOPLE / 9/

STRANAHAN  CRACKDOWN ON MEDICATIONS FROM CANADA

The Homeland Security' Customs and Border Protection is trying to help older Americans by

taking their medication orders from Canada and dumping them. In this way, the elderly are out both money and med's. Why? The medications might be phoneys and not deliver. What Canada will do is generally cut your drug bill by 50%. The drugs and companies up north have been inspected by a number of Governors here in the USA. The drugs meet specifications. However, Big Pharma loses out. So you should sign up for Part D of the new drug plan developed by the Bush Administration and who knows you might get lost in a doughnut, the portion of the plan that pays nothing until

the next month or two.

The legislation protects big Pharma and companies that are dumping seniors from their own medical plans.

(2006) TIME MAGAZINE  9/11

60/CLOUD

ON THE NEW S.A.T., the new test favors females, the grading is more subjective, the essays reward formula driven writers over original voices, but the test does not hurt disadvantage kids.

62-63/ DELL

Bosses are becoming even more snoopy. New software can monitor what you do, where you go, and how much time that you spend at a site. It can give word to word interpretations of your

e-mails and watch where you are surfing. Give it up! Use the computer only when you have to.

66-68/ KLUGGER

Mercury is rising from industrial pollution and is getting in us as well as plants and animals. When we eat those creatures they also remain in our system. It affects memory function and motor skills, but can be more easily removed from our environment than other minerals. In it's purest form, it easily passes through our body.

71-72/ LEMONICK

Are you getting outpatient surgery in the doctor's office? Watch out. The anesthesiologist may be the doctor's playmate. Other than mild numbing in the dentist office, out patient surgery is risky. You don't know the credentials of the one administering the drug.