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• U.N. joining forces with Spider-Man
The idea originally came from French film-maker, Romuald Sciora, who had been working on other U.N. projects and is making a DVD about the international organization that will be distributed to schoolchildren along with the comic books. Although the U ...
• Target, Lowe’s revise sales outlook downward
Meanwhile, Lowe's said it now projects fiscal-year earnings at the low end or slightly below its prior forecast, citing lower-than-expected sales trends. Lowe's said drought conditions in the mid-Atlantic, Southeastern and Western regions of the ...
• U.S. judge OKs freezing Venezuelan assets
Exxon Mobil is challenging Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, over compensation for the nationalization of one of four heavy oil projects in the Orinoco River basin, one of the world's richest oil deposits. Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil, the world ...
• How to travel green — and luxe
A round-trip flight from New York to Anchorage emits 2,632 pounds of carbon dioxide per person, according to TerraPass, a company that offers to offset customers' emissions by funding renewable energy projects. While air travel contributes about 2 ...
• Will ‘Song of the South’ rise again?
Pappas said it’s not clear that the movie is intentionally racist, but it inappropriately projects Remus as a happy, laughing storyteller even though he’s a plantation worker. However, Pappas said he thinks the movie should be rereleased because ...