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...month that Rosneft will soon account for 20%. Oganesyan didn't say how it would reach this goal, but analysts see no other options besides grabbing chunks of Yukos. But that may only be the first step, a senior Russian cabinet official tells Time. Next, he says, Rosneft may mount a takeover bid against Slavneft. Russia's seventh-largest oil company is now co-owned by YukosSibneft and TNK-BP, a Russian-British holding company. But with Sibneft slowly unwinding its merger with the embattled Yukos, Sechin-led Rosneft may be in the best position to buy Sibneft's stake...
This is important because in the West most precipitation falls as snow at higher elevations. Thus, a city like Reno, Nevada, gets, on average, just over 7 in. of precipitation a year, vs. some 70 in. at the top of nearby Mount Rose. During the 1950s drought, for example, a very large portion of the West, along with a big chunk of the Southeast and Great Plains, experienced long-term shortfalls of both winter snows and summer rains. "This is the kind of drought we worry about a lot," says Betancourt--and it's the kind of drought that...
While the program receives 10 percent of its funding from Cambridge schools, Summerbridge still needs to mount a significant fundraising effort...
...student Karen Roberts, whose father is a high-school geology teacher. Between them, they brush rocks, sort and label them, and treat fossils with a preservative. Everyone lugs rock-filled hessian bags to a pick-up point, from where they're eventually trucked to laboratories in Sydney and at Mount Isa's Riversleigh Fossil Centre. There, resident palaeontologist John Scanlon frees the bones by dissolving the surrounding limestone in dilute acetic acid. Since the vats were installed earlier this year, "I've just been hooked," says Scanlon, who at 12 became fascinated with Australian snakes and is now Australia...
...about the crater but didn't visit it until 1999, when she learned tribal tales that were an anthropologist's treasure trove. Since then she has been back almost every year, collecting dozens of Aboriginal paintings and recording their stories. Her university's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will mount an exhibition, "Track of the Rainbow Serpent," in October, and Sanday is currently finishing a book about the crater. Her late father's find was extraordinarily rare. Although an estimated 3,000 metric tons of meteoric dust falls to Earth each year, only about 100 meteorites of any substance make...