by Nelson D Schwartz and Charles Duhigg New York Times May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most...
Near Garden City, Kan., the High Plains Aquifer is giving out. Photo: Matthew Staver/New York Times
by Michael Wines New York Times May 19, 2013
HASKELL COUNTY, Kan. — Forty-nine years ago, Ashley Yost’s grandfather sank a well deep into a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland. He struck an artery of water so prodigious that he could pump 1,600 gallons to the surface every minute....