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...Oakleys come in a range of styles, and include many standard Oakley features, such as XYZ optics, which allows for contoured lenses without distortion; Plutonite lens material that blocks 100% of all UVA, UVB, UVC and harmful blue light; and impressive shock resistance. Two models with 256MB capacity also have polarized lenses, including the "Red Camo Lil Jon" signature version-at $550, they're the most expensive model...
...buying Unocal had never before been discussed at a board meeting?which meant that when they sat down with CNOOC's CEO Fu Chengyu and other top executives on March 29 in a conference room at the Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong, they were in for a shock. CNOOC, Fu told them, was ready to make a play for the Los Angeles-based oil company. "The ship was about to leave the port, and the [directors] hadn't even known there was a ship," says one adviser to CNOOC with knowledge of the meeting...
...dead--a figure expected to rise--and some 700 injured. About 100 were still in hospitals around the capital, 22 listed as "severely injured." While the initial casualty figures were lower than in some previous attacks, such as the train bombings in Madrid in March 2004, the shock of the London bombings reverberated because they occurred in circumstances--and in a city--that are familiar to so many around the world. The first images of the hellish scenes in the London Underground came from cameras on passengers' cell phones, the latest innovation in the grim art of terrorism documentary. While...
DIED. L. PATRICK GRAY, 88, onetime Nixon loyalist and acting director of the FBI during Watergate, who expressed "total shock" at the disclosure that his former deputy W. Mark Felt was the secret journalistic source Deep Throat; of pancreatic cancer; in Atlantic Beach, Fla. Tapped by Nixon in May 1972, after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, he testified during his 1973 Senate confirmation hearings that he had been turning over FBI files on the Watergate probe to the White House. That prompted Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman to suggest famously that Gray be left to "twist slowly, slowly...
...while, it looked as if the shock triggered by the tape would end the denial. Political leaders, including President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, voiced their outrage, and several members of the Scorpions were arrested. Serbia's parliament prepared a declaration condemning the Srebrenica massacre, and for the first time, the government seemed sincere when it declared that Ratko Mladic would be tracked down and arrested before the Srebrenica commemoration...