Exxon Mobil has once again reported the largest quarterly profit in U.S. history. In the second quarter of 2008, it posted a net income of $11.68 billion on revenue of $138 billion in the second quarter. That’s a profit of $1,485.55 a second.

The previous corporate record was $11.66 billion, also set by Exxon in the fourth quarter of 2007.

As an oil producer, the company makes a lot of money when crude prices rise. Exxon made $10 billion from selling oil in the latest quarter, up nearly 70 percent.

The iPod touch is a Wi-fi device with almost all the same features as an iPhone — and even better, it requires no contract. In areas with no Wi-fi, you can use another option.

You won’t get every single one of the iPhone’s capabilities when you opt for an iPod touch, but you’ll save a ton of money. Buying an iPod touch costs $300 for unlimited use, as opposed to a guaranteed commitment of more than $1,600 over two years.

The iPod touch doesn’t have speakers or a camera, and you can’t speak into it. But the vast majority of games, apps, and utilities in the App Store work just fine on an iPod touch without voice or speaker functions. At the moment, there are about 1020 App Store applications for the iPhone, and roughly 970 of them, or 95 percent, work with the iPod touch.

Mr. Spock said it r first. We all hope to live long and prosper. But living long is an art–if you’re going to do it with finesse. And prospering isn’t all about money–it’s about the wealth we acquire when we live good lives and take care of ourselves. Great docs such as Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen of the book, Real Age have compiled all the latest health data that if followed, can literally add years to your life. I took this info, along with several known preventative methods to deter Alzheimer’

Some of the most trusted voices in the defense of vaccine safety include the American Academy of Pediatrics, Every Child By Two, and pediatrician Dr. Paul Offit.

But these three have something more in common — they all have strong financial ties to the industry whose products they promote and defend.

The vaccine industry gives millions to the Academy of Pediatrics for conferences, grants, medical education classes and even helped build their headquarters. Every Child By Two, a group that promotes early immunization for all children, admits the group takes money from the vaccine industry, too — but won’t say how much.

Paul Offit, perhaps the most widely-quoted defender of vaccine safety, has gone so far as to say that babies can tolerate “10,000 vaccines at once.” Offit holds in a $1.5 million dollar research chair funded by Merck.

Oil sands boom swamps the Canadian wilderness Environmentalists want tougher laws to halt the damage, writes Tim Webb Tim Webb Sunday July 20 2008 The Observer Todd Dahlman scoops up a handful of oily sand and smiles. ‘This is the money - it even smells like money,’ says the manager of Shell’s Muskeg River oil sands mine in the Athabasca region of North Alberta in Canada. We are standing in the middle of a pit 50m deep that giant diggers have hollowed out of the earth. Some 150m benea