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Posts on topics that relate to more than one major category

The airline industry
December 30, 2009, 3 Comments

Virgin: the world’s best passenger complaint letter? Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Bran ...

Wednesday Night #1450
December 16, 2009, 1 Comment

Climate Change There are those who describe a disaster scenario depicting the virtual end of life on earth unless carbon ...

West Wing Wednesday Night #21
December 15, 2009, Comments Off on West Wing Wednesday Night #21

Fresh from our relaxing holiday trip to Providenciales, TCI, (where MacDonald’s has not made it!), we are ready fo ...

Climate Change Stories
December 14, 2009, Comments Off on Climate Change Stories

See all Climate Change posts In Bolivia, Water and Ice Tell of Climate Change If the water problems are not solved, El A ...

U.S. economy 2009
December 14, 2009, 2 Comments

NYT  Financial crisis one year later ;  Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit: The Man Who ...

Wednesday Night #1449
December 9, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1449

Reminder: Although relatively little has been done to publicize the event, we draw your attention to the presence of the ...

Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
December 9, 2009, 1 Comment

Trucks are loaded with sugar cane, which will be used to produce biofuels, in Brazil. Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters ...

India: Science & Technology
December 8, 2009, 1 Comment

Russia to supply India with nuclear reactors International power companies from Russia, France, the UK, the US and Canad ...

Wednesday Night #1448
December 2, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1448

Special thanks to Margaret Duthie for assiduous note-taking It seems that almost every week, we celebrate another achiev ...

Canada: economy 2009
December 2, 2009, 1 Comment

Jeff Rubin blog Bombardier layoffs reduced after it agrees to job-sharing with union More than 100 Bombardier Aerospace ...