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Bhopal and the BP Oil Spill: A Tale of Two Disasters
As BP struggles to contain the damage the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has caused to the Gulf of Mexico and to the people whose livelihoods depend on its...
The Y2K Bug Goes to Court
The millennium came early to Warren, Mich.--in 1995, to be exact. When customers at the Produce Palace, a gourmet grocery store, started using credit cards with...
Environment: A Calamity for Union Carbide
The financial future of the chemical giant is in question The Bhopal disaster was both a human tragedy of historic proportions and a nightmare for one of the...
Press: Different Degrees of Candor
Soviet television viewers who watched the news one night last month glimpsed something extraordinary. There, on the screen, appeared scenes of a drug bust in...
Baby, You're a Rich Man Still
Even for a billionaire, the $600 million penalty that junk-bond king Michael Milken has agreed to pay is a breathtaking sum. Milken will be forfeiting more money...
Troubles Aplenty At Union Carbide
Compared with the misfortunes of Union Carbide, Job had it easy. The company's problems began nearly a decade ago with a profit slump that has persisted ever...
Frightening Findings At Bhopal
The headquarters of Union Carbide in Danbury, Conn., used to have a reputation as a fairly happy shop. Jokes were freely exchanged in the corridors, and...
Wikileaks’s Stratfor Emails Reveal Unexpected Talent for Comedy
When Wikileaks released a trove of diplomatic cables penned by U.S. ambassadors at the end of 2010, it soon became clear the missives weren’t simply a...
When Bad Things Are Caused by Good Nations
The event defied precedent. The U.S. Navy blew 290 people out of the sky -- victims whose only offense was the understandable desire to fly from Iran to Dubai...
Insurance Shock
Business executives and public officials lately have been receiving a new kind of letter bomb: their insurance bill. These days many letters from insurers...
