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...CNOOC's run at Unocal, no one had exactly covered themselves in glory. Fu, the personable CEO who had gone to graduate school in Los Angeles near Unocal's headquarters, had taken a pratfall right out of the gate back in late March, failing to inform his board members about the bid until just two days before he was going to launch it. When virtually the entire eight-member board?and not, as earlier reports had it, just the outside directors?balked, Fu had to back off. That allowed Chevron to make the first bid, and forced CNOOC to play...
...memories inform the sculptures he's made ever since?like Titanic (1994), a flapping ship of fools commemorating a friend and former political prisoner who died in Russia in 1994 for want of a blood transfusion?but they have a forward motion to them now, and breathe with the fresh air of life outside the Iron Curtain. tel: (44-141) 552 7080; www.sharmanka.com
...into a performance called Sharmanka (barrel organ), bathing the works in light, shadow and music, and handing out opera glasses. In the early '90s, artists from Scotland helped Bersudsky, who now speaks again but would rather not, to show Sharmanka abroad and eventually to settle in Glasgow. Bad memories inform the sculptures he's made ever since - like Titanic (1994), a flapping ship of fools commemorating a friend and former political prisoner who died in Russia in 1994 for want of a blood transfusion - but they have a forward motion to them now, and breathe with the fresh...
...parking meters by cell phone. Parkers dial a toll-free number, log in, enter their lot number and log out after parking. (Of the current 850 users, 10% have agreed to pay the $7-per-month service fee; the rest pay 25¢ per parking period.) Text messages inform parkers that their time is up, with the option to add more. "It's like an insurance policy against an $18 ticket," says city manager David Brown. --By Coco Masters
...White House and the National Security Council, was the brainchild of a group that included David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and former U.S. Senator and Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. According to Washington P.R. Man Burt Hoffman, who is helping the group organize, Trilogy intends to inform the public about the technical merits of SDI. "The object is to stay in the middle, not to be like High Frontier, which has been labeled as zealots, or the Union of Concerned Scientists, who have also been labeled as zealots," says...