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...runs his business the same way he plays his hockey--sharp and concentrated in handling passes--and he scores, says the associate. Medvedev also hits as hard as the Kremlin wants. One such hit shook Sakhalin Energy (SE), operator of the Shell-led Sakhalin II consortium. At $20 billion, it is the world's largest integrated oil-and-gas-export project, with total reserves of some 4 billion bbl. of oil equivalent (BOE) and total project capacity of 395,000 BOE per day, including 9.6 million tons per year of liquefied-natural-gas production. It is also the largest single...
Medvedev now says publicly that Gazprom is also targeting the $12.8 billion Sakhalin I project, operated by an Exxon-led consortium. It fits perfectly with Russia's strategy to get more control of its energy assets. Exxon hasn't capitulated by any means, but it still might learn what Belarus and SE did: Gazprom always wins...
...built in Britain, is part of a network called the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. Its job includes keeping an orbiting eye on Nigeria's vanishing forest resources and often vandalized oil pipelines. It also watches for impending disasters such as fires and floods and shares the information with a consortium that includes Algeria, China, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and Britain...
...international consortium of researchers, including scientists at the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute, has identified three genes that contain genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes. The discovery represents an important leap in understanding common diseases, including strokes, heart attacks, and diabetes, from a genetics perspective, according to David M. Altshuler, one of the primary researchers involved with the discovery. “The most important story here is that, it’s been clear for almost a century that common diseases such as diabetes run in families, and half of the risk is genetic susceptibility. But up until this...
...October that the Class of 2006’s mean response regarding social satisfaction in the senior class survey was “below the ‘satisfied’ level,” and Harvard College had a disappointing showing in social life in the most recent Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) survey. Surely, the UC’s inflexible funding system for HoCos promises to worsen this already dire situation of lack-of-fun on this campus...