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Fill a cereal bowl approximately halfway full of grain. Add the butternut squash, beans, and cranberries. Douse with olive oil and season with rosemary, salt, and pepper. Mix well and place over a bed of olive-oil dressed spinach leaves...
...been very active to get as many commitments on energy around the world before the dollar devalues too much." In August, China signed a $41 billion contract to buy liquefied natural gas over the next 20 years from Australia. Last month, China's state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) entered talks with Nigeria to buy as much as one-sixth of the West African nation's proven petroleum reserves, the Financial Times reported. This week, Guinea's junta announced a $7 billion mining deal with an unnamed Chinese company, which human-rights activists say could prop...
...side, there are clear benefits: Russia's energy companies secure a stake in China, which is set to become the world's biggest energy consumer within five years, according to the International Energy Agency in Paris. And for China, Russia provides a safer, more direct source for gas and oil than either the Persian Gulf or the Horn of Africa. Energy-rich Russia has suffered from tanking oil and natural gas prices, while China has managed thus far to weather the global economic downturn thanks to $586 billion in government stimulus spending. China has taken advantage of more than...
...There is conflicting information on just how far Hicheur's plans had progressed. The London Daily Mail reported on Tuesday that Hicheur had targeted an oil refinery owned by the French company Total and wanted to create an explosion capable of destroying a "city the size of London," according to unidentified sources. The French official would not comment on the Daily Mail report but did say that Hicheur "had some written projects and drawings concerning certain targets in France." The official added, however, that Hicheur "had not gotten close to defining a plot." (Read "French Terror Conviction: Lesson...
...circulated. Bloggers also supplied their interpretations of events. The comedian and avid Twitterer Stephen Fry galvanized his more than 800,000 followers into action with the following tweet containing links to two brief online reports of the legal battle: "Outrageous gagging order. It's in reference to the Trafigura oil dumping scandal. Grotesque and squalid." (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds...