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Quite an understatement. But for all the embarrassment of Reiten's early exit, StatoilHydro faces challenges that will linger long after this hubbub is over. StatoilHydro is operating in a market that has changed drastically since oil was first struck off the coast of Norway in the late 1960s. After waves of mergers in the U.S. and Europe, and with the growing dominance of nationally owned energy companies worldwide, the oil and gas industry is increasingly ruled by a handful of giants. Though StatoilHydro leads the world in offshore extraction, it's dwarfed by diversified behemoths like BP, Exxon-Mobil...
...success in fighting HIV and AIDS and is one of the first in Africa to tackle overpopulation. Rwandan coffee is now some of the most sought after in the world and its eco-tourism industry is booming, but the effects of the country's bloody recent past linger on. Kagame, 49, met Africa bureau chief Alex Perry at his offices in Kigali...
That gilt-edged pledge helped shares in Northern Rock recover. But the conditions that triggered the crisis - not to mention its fallout - look set to linger...
...announced that the Arctic ice cap is melting even more rapidly than they had feared; by 2050, 40% of the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean could be gone, a loss that wasn't supposed to happen for 100 years. One scientist called the news "astounding." Since greenhouse gases linger for decades, even drastic reductions in emissions won't be enough to prevent further decline...
Patients are those for whom good, young doctors forgo happy nights of beer and dancing. Patients are the ones great nurses worry about, sit up with and linger to take care of, when they could be home with their kids. We continue to study the journals and the books for patients, even when we're 60 and can barely see the words on a page anymore. We take them on knowing they won't pay a dime, knowing they're going to complain, knowing their prognosis stinks. We know how vulnerable patients are - that they literally lie open...