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...Aurel Leven. Companies slammed on the merger brakes - which helped shut down an already dragging global economy. Now a new flurry of eye-catching deals is pointing to a recovery. In the U.S., the software company Oracle has launched a $6.3 billion hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft. In Europe, BP and Russia's TNK have signed a $6 billion deal, and a Swiss orthopedics company, Centerpulse, which had an almost sealed deal with Smith & Nephew of the U.K., is suddenly being wooed by a U.S. firm, Zimmer Holding. Investors are thrilled, because all the activity suggests that the stock-market...
...Russia - more than double the total amount of foreign direct investment in the country last year. So the oil industry took notice last week when British Petroleum paid that sum for a 50% stake in oil company TNK, making the biggest purchase of Russian equity ever. But just as BP was showing its faith in Russia, environmental groups were claiming the company had become an apostate to the green causes it once championed. TNK has some notoriously polluted assets, like the Ryazan refinery and the Samotlor field in western Siberia, where 6,500 hectares of land have been heavily contaminated...
...locales has led to thousands of remarkably symmetrical pines, palms and cacti; fake chimneys and air-conditioning huts; ersatz silos and water towers home to no liquid or grain. One company raised the roof of a McDonald's to conceal some antennas. Another stashed wireless gear inside signs for BP stations and Red Roof Inns. The camouflage unit of Valmont Industries, based in Omaha, Neb., received a request for a 115-ft. saguaro cactus, which would have been triple the plant's natural height. "You'd turn around and run if you saw something like that," says the company...
...BP: I’m sure they were. The musical bits even had the little MTV titles. The songs I sang for the doll series were made into trippy ’80s-style videos, like fantasy pieces. They had all those insane colors, and makeup that looked like war paint, which was of course totally...
...BP: I think they were impressed that I was getting paid to sing, but people my age didn’t know about Jem. They’re much more excited about it now than they were at the time. My brother and his friends were really into the fact that I worked on the show. They used to make me sing whenever I came home. It was great...