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Because most of the new fields are in inhospitable regions, exploitation costs are huge. In Canada a consortium led by Mobil is investing $4 billion to build and install the world's heaviest -- and costliest -- drilling platform 200 miles southeast of the coast of Newfoundland. The 1.1 million-ton rig, designed to withstand collisions with the giant icebergs that regularly drift through the area, will begin tapping the North Atlantic's 2 billion-bbl. Hibernia field...
...Bosnia, 106 people were killed and 407 wounded, according to Bosnian radio reports. Since peace talks were broken off in Brussels on Dec. 23, the Serbs have intensified their artillery attacks on Sarajevo; in a single day last week, they fired 1,353 shells on the besieged capital, the heaviest bombardment in months. Peace talks are scheduled to resume next week in Geneva...
...OVERCHARGE. Though they may have thought public outrage at the crime required it, prosecutors erred by hitting Williams and co-defendant Watson with the heaviest possible charges, including attempted murder and aggravated mayhem, both of which carry terms of life in prison. At trial, even videotape evidence couldn't prove the attackers had a specific intent to do harm -- the very thing jurors were required to decide before finding the defendants guilty on the most serious points. "From day one, we thought the prosecution would never be able to prove ((that))," said Edi Faal, the defense attorney for Williams...
Like a battle-scarred prizefighter on the ropes in the title match, Harvard's endowment is struggling. Long the envy of higher education for its size--at nearly $5.5 billion, it is the heaviest of the heavyweights--the fund and its managers have more recently become a punching bag for critics after years of lackluster returns...
Like a battle-scarred prizefighter on the ropes in the title match, Harvard's endowment is struggling. Long the envy of higher education for its size--at nearly $5.5 billion, it is the heaviest of the heavyweights--the fund and its managers have more recently become a punching bag for critics after years of lackluster returns...