Curses! Foiled again! So much for ease of access to accurate information on the compensation your corporate officers are recieving . . . "Due to an accounting loophole for stock options and an eleventh-hour rule change made by securities regulators just before Christmas." Sigh. Read the full story by David Cho and Carrie Johnson here at The Washington Post Online.
Orbit gum, made by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (trading on the Buenos Aires market as WWY.BA - $40.90), advertises that it whitens teeth and freshens breath.
MANOHLA DARGIS of the NY Times writes: "Forget buckets of blood. Nothing says horror like one of those tubs of artificially buttered, nonorganic popcorn at the concession stand. That, at least, is one of the unappetizing lessons to draw from one of the scariest movies of the year, “Food, Inc.,” an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding or, more to the political point, force-feeding, Americans all the junk that multinational corporate money can buy."
Oil runs the world, fueling industrial processes that make everything from computers to plastic containers. Without it, vehicles, airplanes, trucks that bring food to grocers shelves, and ships that bring steel from China wouldn't run. The modern world would grind to a halt.
