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...lack the capital or technology to exploit them. When Chinese companies have a stake in oil coming out of the ground, even if it originates abroad, they will have secured long-term supplies independent of the world's fickle prices. The process of overseas exploration began in 1997, when Premier Li Peng encouraged state-run oil concerns to look for investment opportunities outside China's borders, and in the past few years, the search has ranged all over the world...
...failure to secure a pipeline from Russia has especially frustrated China's leaders. Siberian oil is transported into China at great expense on trains and trucks. For years Beijing has lobbied its former communist brother for a pipeline to refineries in Daqing. During a visit to Moscow last month, Premier Wen Jiabao repeated China's entreaties but received no promises. Meanwhile, Japan has offered to pay for part of the multibillion-dollar pipeline--as long as it terminates in the Russian port of Nakhodka, near Japan. Moscow seems inclined to take Japan's offer. "China feels betrayed," says Bernard Cole...
DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, beefy baritone who played opposite Betty Hutton, Doris Day and Jane Powell in such premier 1950s Hollywood musicals as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate; of colon cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In the 1980s he revived his career on TV's Dallas as Clayton Farlow, the debonair tycoon who romanced matriarch Miss Ellie and confounded...
...season, good for seventh in the league. Stehle will have his hands full with Arizona transfer Dennis Latimore, considered by many the best player on this year’s Irish squad. That’s scary, considering Francis has been tabbed as the Big East’s premier big man after the graduation of UConn’s Emeka Okafor...
Each week TIME journalists appear on PBS with Charlie Rose, one of America's premier interviewers, to discuss the news of the week. See charlierose.com for up-to-date schedules and more program information...