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...Takin, senior analyst at the Centre for Global Energy Studies, a London-based consultancy. While it's impossible to work out exactly how much that contributes to rising oil prices compared to the crisis over Iran and increasing demand, Takin says production losses in the Delta are "a major factor" in the high price of gas. The militants' campaign kicked off on Jan. 11 when three speedboats packed with gun-toting men attacked a Nigerian navy boat and a vessel leased by Shell. No one was killed. But the attackers, who said they were part of a new group called...
...weird” for him to know. “They asked what the largest rodent in the world was,” he said, admitting that he had not known that the correct answer is a capybara. Vaz said that his youth might have been one factor that made him appealing to the show’s producers, He competed in the first round in September 2005, winning three games but losing in the fourth. He called himself “near the borderline” of people accepted into the tournament. “I didn?...
...shown in the victories of the varsity four and novice eight on Saturday, should contribute. “Practices this week will be focused on getting the best racing in, not on seat racing,” Antony said. “[But] the depth is still a motivating factor for us to give the team more speed on the river.” Although at Eastern Sprints the team’s focus is on attaining the Eastern Sprints’ Lightweight Eight Cup, success at the varsity four, novice eight, or novice four levels will likely motivate...
Then there was the X factor in Goss's departure: his judgment about people. After bringing with him a boarding party of staff members who seemed to specialize in mishandling personnel matters, Goss promoted Kyle (Dusty) Foggo to be the CIA's executive director and top budget chief. Foggo is now at the center of a growing investigation into a federal bribery case that has already sent former California Congressman Randy (Duke) Cunningham to prison for more than eight years. A source close to the investigation tells TIME that the Justice Department is investigating reports that one of Cunningham...
...that was exclusively licensed the patent by Harvard, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the other plaintiffs in the case. In the 1980s, scientists from those institutions discovered a method of treating diseases by regulating the activity of a molecule called NF-kB—a transcription factor involved in protein production. When the discovery was eventually awarded a patent in 2002, Ariad and the three institutions sued Eli Lilly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Evista helps prevent and treat osteoperosis and Xigris treats people with severe sepsis. Royalties from that patent could...