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...modern walkers, free from the uncertainty and food worries that plagued Caley, have time to revel in their surroundings. Giant red waratah blooms stand on thick stalks like sentinels beside dark pools. Slow slugs colored electric pink and pale green come out after the rain, when the rich brown, gold and silver-gray hues of wet bark glisten. Huge flowers adorn gnarled banksia trees so old they would have been sprouting when Caley passed by. Owls call to another in the dark, and the stars, which Caley thought he was seeing when he found glow-worms in Luminous Valley, glitter...
...Mary Power, the University’s senior director of community relations, said that the 48,000-jobs figure did not include all jobs at businesses started by Harvard grads—for example, the hundreds of positions at office supplies giant Staples, which was started by an alum...
Even at home, Beijing has faced setbacks. In August a consortium led by oil giant Shell pulled out of a just-finished gas pipeline--running 2,730 miles from the western deserts to Shanghai-- after the firms decided their returns would be too small. A planned oil pipeline covering the same distance has seen no takers. Then, last month, Shell and Unocal backed out of a multibillion-dollar project to tap gas fields under the East China...
...Russian firms are stepping in where foreign companies find it harder to tread. Foremost among them is the giant state-controlled Gazprom, whose gas reserves were recently valued at $78 billion and which is actively pushing to become a big player in the oil market. It is merging with Russia's seventh largest oil company, state-owned Rosneft, and Alexei Miller, Gazprom's chief executive, has signaled his interest in another oil producer, Zarubezhneft. Most dramatically, Gazprom has emerged as the best-positioned candidate to acquire the company that forms the core of Yukos--a Siberia-based corporation called Yugansk...
...Spectre gunship is a giant flying artillery platform. Its complex fire-control systems can pinpoint an individual structure or level entire areas in seconds...