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BRIEFS A7 Shell's game in Libya; Coke's global woes; a chip rebound; camcorder phones; the cheap skies...
GADDAFI COMES OUT OF HIS SHELL...
...foreigners to explore for Libyan energy are gaining Western oil firms' interest. First to benefit: Royal Dutch/Shell, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate, which last month signed a $200 million deal with Libya's state-owned oil-and-gas company to search for reserves and build a liquefied-natural-gas terminal. Shell could use a new partner: this year it has twice admitted overstating proven reserves. Officials from ConocoPhillips and Marathon have also visited Tripoli. "Libya is a nice market because of the quality of its crude and proximity to Europe," says Jeb Armstrong of Argus Research. But don't confuse this...
Beyond simply highlighting the suspiciously skyrocketing cost, the study made other discoveries about textbook publishing which could spur further congressional scrutiny. Publishers are increasingly bundling new textbooks with extras like CD-ROMs, for which students inevitably shell out additional money even when they are not germane to the course curricula. Such is the case, for example, with the text for Harvard’s Chemistry 5 and 7—Petrucci, Harwood and Herring’s eighth edition of General Chemistry—whose list price...
...that the distinction between them more apparent. The Way I Am makes it clear that both Knoc-turn’al’s lyrics and flow are original. His appeal to the West Coast listener base feels authentic when he declares, “I got shell toes on / I don’t wear them Tims,” taking a subtle jab at the East Coast...