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Cooking With Gas Western investors, long irked by the 20% limit on foreign ownership of Gazprom, Russia's natural gas monopoly, were heartened last week when President Vladimir Putin gave Gazprom the go-ahead to acquire Rosneft, the government's last major oil company. The move ups the state's 38% stake in Gazprom to a controlling one in the newly formed Gazpromneft, and paves the way for foreign investors' billions to flow into Russia. But Putin apparently announced his plan before his ministers had agreed on its details: Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko cooled expectations, saying that liberalization...
...developing the Kárahnjúkar project, downplays the environmental impact, saying the scheme - which is supported by the national government, local authorities and a significant majority of the general public - will create about a thousand jobs in the sparsely populated east. The project finally got the go-ahead from Iceland's Supreme Court in January, after four years of legal wrangling over the environmental impact assessment submitted by Landsvirkjun. Alcoa's Fjardaál smelting plant, for which ground was recently broken in Reydarfjördur, a port on the country's largest east-coast fjord, will...
Despite all the exhortations to stay out of the sun, a million Americans will develop skin cancer this year. The only good news for die-hard sun worshippers is that treatments are improving. The FDA just gave 3M Pharmaceuticals the go-ahead to market Aldara as a therapy for a common type of basal-cell carcinoma (BCC)--the first new topical approved for BCC in 25 years. In trials, cancerous lesions cleared up after three months for more than 80% of patients...
...Laden, it turns out, was more of a micromanager than he has often been portrayed as. The commission says bin Laden personally gave Mohammed the go-ahead to begin laying the groundwork for the attack at a meeting in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in early 1999. Over the following 12 to 18 months, bin Laden chose or accepted oaths from all 19 of the eventual hijackers and tapped Mohammed Atta to be the mission's leader. Throughout the planning stage, bin Laden was the one who scaled back the more ambitious proposals. The key sources of the new information are Mohammed...
...time the military received Vice President Dick Cheney's authorization to shoot down any hostile aircraft, at 10:31 a.m., the last of the hijacked planes had already crashed. The commission report says Cheney did first get the President's go-ahead over the phone but commissioners told TIME that formal documentation for that order is incomplete. However it came about, the commission also reveals that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) never actually relayed Cheney's command to its pilots in the air, some of whom were seeking a jet, American Airlines Flight 11, that had earlier crashed...