Word: shells
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Protesting damage to the environment and alleged human-rights abuses, a group of activist Harvard students celebrated Shell Oil's "100 years of blood for oil" with cake, candles and song yesterday on the Widener Library steps...
...fabricated document. That was untrue. TIME apparently bought Jones' attempt at damage control. If a faux pas has been committed, it certainly wasn't made by the Dallas Morning News. STUART WILK, Managing Editor Dallas Morning News Dallas TIME's trashing of the Miami Herald as a "shell of its former self" is a chomp on the ear. Sure, it's a different newspaper than it was in 1984. Yet since then the Herald has nine times picked off a Pulitzer, a prize supposedly indicative of quality. Probably no region in America sees more demographic upheaval than Miami does...
...Mark in the years to come. Will their record sell? Will they become rich and famous? The same questions can be asked about their creator. Will Geniuses of Crack find the twenty-something audience that will appreciate the allusions and references? Will these same twenty-somethings be willing to shell out $12 for a paperback? Only time will tell, but it is clear that Gomez, too, deserves a sequel, and there is no doubt he will...
...because he had little in the way of local service to sell. So while driving to work on Aug. 12, 1996, he dialed up James Crowe, chairman of a local-service provider called MFS Communications, to propose a deal. By the time Ebbers hung up, he was ready to shell out $12.5 billion for MFS, which was itself acquiring UUNet, the world's largest source of trunk lines--or "backbones"--to the Internet...
Another great stop for technophiles is Boston's renowned Museum of Science. It can be a pricey day-trip; admission is almost $9 for a one-day visit, and expect to shell out even more if you want to see a show at the Omni Theater or the planetarium...