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Apple: What’s Eating America’s Favorite Tech Company?
In the year-and-a-half since Steve Jobs died, Apple has undergone a remarkable transformation. Shares of the world's most celebrated tech company have declined...
Blood For Oil
Look east from the Kurdish trenches on a dusty ridge outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk and you can see the cause of it all: a rudimentary oil field where...

Reading While Eating for August 7: Beatles and Bookworms
Athletic Gods: Sports have evolved from fighting for honor to fighting for a brand, argues author Stephen Amidon in his fascinating new book Something Like a...

Inside the Death Star -- Also Known as Exxon
Like all the Big Oil players now operating in the Gulf of Mexico, ExxonMobil was required to file a spill response plan with the Department of Interior that...

What You Should Know About Exxon Mobil’s Latest Ad Campaign
If you were watching the Masters golf tournament last weekend, you would have noticed it was laced with ads from Exxon Mobil calling for….better science. That’s...
Photo Essays

Oil in the River: Photos from Montana's Fouled Yellowstone
The rupture of an Exxon Mobil pipeline releases almost 1,000 barrels of oil into a flood-swollen river

A Brief History of the Exxon Valdez Disaster
Twenty years after the "Exxon Valdez" oil spill — the catastrophe on March 24, 1989, that released 10.8 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound...
Articles from Around the Web
Student loans are big business for government, bringing billions in profit
In comparison, ExxonMobil, the county's most profitable company, made $44.9 billion last year. ...
Exxon sued over Arkansas pipeline spill
The Arkansas Attorney General and the federal government are suing ExxonMobil, alleging improper waste storage and water contamination stemming from a March pipeline spill that...
Exxon Shareholders Reject Gay Discrimination Ban
Exxon said it already bans all discrimination and no specific language is needed. ...
ExxonMobil rejects LGBT discrimination ban
For the 14th year in a row, shareholders at oil giant ExxonMobil overwhelmingly shot down a proposal that would specifically prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation...


