January 8, 2008--WASHINGTON (Reuters) - France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.
January 3, 2008—The surging price of oil, from just over $10 a barrel a decade ago to $100 yesterday, is altering the wealth and influence of industries and nations around the world. ... The long oil-price boom is posing wrenching challenges for the world’s poorest nations, while enriching and emboldening producers in the Middle East, Russia and Venezuela. Their increasing muscle has a flip side: a decline of US clout in many parts of the world. Steep gasoline prices also threaten America’s long love affair with the automobile, while putting strains on many lower-incoem people outside big cities, who must spend an increasing share of their budgets just on fuel to get to work. WSJ A1
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