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Enhancing oxygen delivery is a broad frontier. The process theoretically can be manipulated at many points. "It is inevitable that other pharmacological avenues to stimulate red-cell production will be explored--and exploited," says Dr. Michael Ashenden, project coordinator for a global blood-doping research consortium funded by WADA and USADA. "Putting in an EPO gene is only one way to get the same result...
...austere, half-constructed new capital, is wary. "Doing business here is like negotiating with the wind," one Western oil company executive says. The timing of the accusations against BG is curious, coming just weeks after the Kazakh government announced its intention to buy BG's stake in the multinational consortium contracted to exploit the Kashagan field in the northern Caspian Sea - the largest oil and natural-gas deposit to be discovered in the past 30 years. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Kashagan holds between 9 billion and 13 billion barrels of oil. Though crude is not expected...
...sports going and an additional $98 million to renovate gyms and soccer fields. The Iraqis are used to such shortfalls; Uday diverted Olympic money to his palaces and planes. But in the post-Saddam era, the N.O.C.I. has truly embraced the Olympic ideals: Citius (Swifter)! Altius (Higher)! And now Consortium (Let Coke and Nike pay the bills...
...Going Down RUSSIA Not even a bailout offer from a consortium led by ex-Yukos official Konstantin Kagalovsky could reverse a slide in the oil giant's stock. As court bailiffs threatened to sell its core asset, Yuganskneftegaz, to recoup $3.4 billion in back taxes, the prospect of bankruptcy loomed too large...
...buying as many of the world's best players as they can find. And the fans of Liverpool F.C., whose status as a local icon may be even greater than that of the Beatles, are facing the uncomfortable reality that the club may soon be partly owned by a consortium organized by the prime minister of Thailand...