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...board is Dmitri Medvedev, the First Deputy Prime Minister, who is widely seen as a possible Putin heir. After its brush with Ukraine, Gazprom is now pushing hard to acquire gas distribution and marketing companies in other countries; last week it acquired the industrial and commercial client base of Britain's privately-owned Pennine Natural Gas. The next sector ripe for state consolidation may be the pipeline business. According to official documents seen by Time, there are moves afoot within the Kremlin to create a huge oil and gas pipe-line monopoly based on an existing pipeline operator, Transneft...
...siblings hunker behind barricades alongside the ones they're biologically closest to does not lend itself to good sibling ties. Well-blended families, on the other hand, may produce step- or half-siblings who are extraordinarily close. One of the best studies on this topic is being conducted in Britain with a large group of many different kinds of nontraditional families. In general, the researchers have found that the intensity of the relationships closely follows the degree of physical relatedness. No hard rules have emerged, but the more genes you share, the more deeply invested you tend to grow. "Biological...
...closer as adults--and more emotionally skilled too, often clearly recalling what their long-ago fights were about and the lessons they took from them. "I'm very sensitized to the fact that it's important to listen to others," a respondent wrote in a recent study conducted in Britain. "People get over their anger, and people who disagree are not terrible," wrote another. Even those with troubled or self-destructive siblings came away with something valuable: they learned patience, acceptance and cautionary lessons. "[You] cannot change others," wrote one. "[But] I wasn't going to be like that...
...would Tesco, Britain's biggest grocer, want to wade in among the carnivores? The answer can be found on a Friday evening in a trendy London neighborhood called Spitalfields, where the Tesco Express store's young shoppers, filing in from nearby offices, are grabbing a few items before heading home. "I'm lazy," admits Adelaide Turnbull, 23, darting in for a bottle of wine. Larger-format supermarkets might offer lower prices, but yards from her home, this format is convenient, she says. "It works...
...opened more than 800 overseas stores, almost all in Central Europe and Asia, and they now account for more than a fifth of Tesco's total sales. International sales soared 23% in the past fiscal year, more than twice the rate of sales growth in Britain, lifting Tesco's profits 17%, to $4 billion...