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...INDICATORS Oil Under Fire U.S. lawyers filed suit against Royal Dutch/Shell after the Anglo-Dutch oil group slashed its proven reserves estimate by 20% last month. And a judge in Alaska ordered Exxon Mobil to pay $6.75 billion in damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill...
...everyone is won over. Greenpeace, which kicked up a big fuss over the Erika spill, is frustrated because Total continues to use a leaky pipeline in Siberia and wants the company to show a greater commitment to developing renewable-energy sources such as wind and solar power. "The level of dialogue with BP or Shell is totally different," says Bruno Rebell, Greenpeace's head of international programs. At Henderson Global Investors, which manages about $127 billion in assets, fund managers also think Total needs to do more. A September 2001 accident at a Total fertilizer plant in Toulouse that killed...
...burnish its image. Several former managers were just convicted in a sensational corruption case in France, and the company stands accused of using forced labor to build a gas pipeline in Myanmar, which it vigorously denies. Total's image at home was especially sullied by a devastating oil spill that polluted some of France's best-loved beaches...
...patient, a medical researcher and lieutenant colonel in Taiwan's army surnamed Chan, apparently contracted the disease in a SARS research lab on Dec. 6. Authorities in Taiwan believe Chan was in a rush to catch a plane to Singapore for a medical conference and hurriedly cleaned up a spill in his lab from a leaky waste bag. Chan told investigators that he thought the spill was safe because it was several days old and therefore any virus in it should have died. Not exactly a spit-and-polish operation...
...URINE When the body cannot make enough insulin and blood-sugar levels get too high, it begins to break down fat, forming ketones. These compounds spill out into the urine, signaling too little insulin at work...