Short-Term Energy and Summer Fuels Outlook
Short-Term Energy and Summer Fuels Outlook April 2008 (04/08/2008): "Quarterly short-term energy projections for supply, demand, and price for the major fuels through 2009 for the U.S. This report provides an emphasis on motor gasoline. International oil forecasts are included."
Short-Term Energy Outlook Supplement: Motor Gasoline Consumption 2008 (04/08/2008): "This report reviews how gasoline markets relate to population, income, prices, and the growing role of ethanol. It also analyzes the structural shift in motor gasoline markets that took place in the late 1990s

SEC Takes Action to Halt Online Account Intrusion and Identity Theft Scheme
News release: "The Securities and Exchange Commission...took action to stop a sophisticated Internet scheme that stole the identities of unsuspecting individuals and netted more than $66,000 in illicit profits in just seven weeks. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the SEC alleged that one or more unknown traders conducted their entire online account intrusion scheme over the Internet and concealed their identities by, among other things, fraudulently opening brokerage accounts in the names of individuals who responded to a job advertisement on the Web site Craig’s List."

Chairman Waxman Issues Subpoena for EPA Documents
"Chairman Henry A. Waxman has issued a subpoena to compel EPA to provide unredacted copies of documents involving the White House that have been improperly withheld from the Committee regarding EPA’s decision to reject California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. The subpoena compels production of approximately 100 EPA documents involving the White House. Chairman Waxman released the following statement:
“The Committee has found evidence that EPA officials met with the White House regarding California’s motor vehicle regulations. Subsequently, EPA blocked California from moving forward with its landmark program to address climate change. Unfortunately, EPA has refused to disclose the substance and extent of its communications with the White House. The Committee must have these documents in order to understand how the agency’s decision was made.”

Chairman Waxman Criticizes EPA Proposal That Would Allow Contaminated Drinking Water
"In a letter to EPA Administrator Johnson, Chairman Waxman expressed his concerns that an EPA proposal could expose significant populations in the United States to contamination levels in drinking water up to three times what the law now allows."

The at sign (@) first appeared in e-mail back in the early 70s, when a programmer named Ray Tomlinson devised a system using it as a method of separating the user of a computer from the machine he or she was using. Until then, e-mail could only be sent to users of the same computer.
M-W Word for the Wise

Pronunciation challenge: aberrant
http://www.bartleby.com/61/36/A0013600.html

Who is Bartleby and why did he say “I would prefer not to” in Bartleby, the Scriviner: A Story of Wall Street.
This is a short novel by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts in November and December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby_the_Scrivener
Read the book and you will find out who Bartleby is, but I doubt if you’ll find out why he “preferred not to.”

In February, Duke University lacrosse players sued Duke, Durham and several school and police officials in federal court in North Carolina for fraud, abuse and breach of duty for supporting the prosecution of the case against their three falsely-accused teammates. (Click here for the complaint, in which they seek damages for invasion of privacy, emotional distress and other injuries.) At the time, Duke’s GC, Pamela Bernard, said: “Their legal strategy attacking Duke is misdirected and without merit.”
Now that strategy, which includes a Web site, dukelawsuit.com, has itself become the subject of a dispute between the players and the University, the city of Durham and the Duke University Health System, which have objected in federal court to the site — a blog that tracks the suit and includes links to all the filings.
WSJ Law Blog April 10, 2008

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