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...that Gazprom might buy out the Russian billionaires, then take control of TNK-BP. Given the acrimony between BP and its partners, it's not hard to see why the Brits might welcome Gazprom. Likewise, Gazprom may be more attuned to the benefits of having a foreign partner with deep pockets and a long-term outlook. To help develop a vast gas field in the Barents Sea, Gazprom teamed up with Norwegian oil firm StatoilHydro and French giant Total last year, indicating there's still an openness to such partnerships, even as Russia gains confidence in its ability...
...episode of culture shock. At dinner in a small restaurant in the city of Xi'an, which my friends and I found only by deliberating avoiding the shopping mall, we discovered that a dish printed as “chickenfish” on the menu was actually a deep-fried fish covered in multicolored sprinkles and served with a large cherry in its mouth. Following that memorable dinner, we visited a school in a rural farming village, where farmers harvest crops by hand and still make arts and crafts using the same techniques they have employed for more than...
...colleague, he took deep interest in the department's business, combining a rather traditional etiquette with a very sharp wit," William C. Kirby, former Dean of the Faculty and former chair of the history department, wrote in an e-mail...
...Lilian Handlin—a friend of 30 years and fellow historian—wrote in an e-mail that Fleming's intellectual curiosity ran deep. As a scholar of history of science, he read "voluminously" on both sides of the field...
...lived my whole life with a deep-seated knowledge that the world turns, that things change, that the second hand ticks around the clock from 6:56 to 6:57. But that makes no difference now. Maybe it’s the Catalán lifestyle that’s thrown me for a loop—or the sun, which magically remains suspended, muggy hot and sweat-inducing, until past 9pm. Maybe it’s the ubiquitous use of military time, or the complete lack of a sleep schedule. (Party goers return, drunken and stumbling...