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...days after Shell's setback, fueled speculation that it was trying to get a big piece of the Sakhalin projects; in a speech, deputy director Aleksandr Ananenkov laid out a broad vision for that company to link oil fields in eastern Siberia with the Sakhalin project to create one vast network. The affected oil firms have reacted guardedly, but others have been blunt in their criticism - most notably Shinzo Abe, Japan's next Prime Minister. The Sakhalin projects are supposed to become a major source of liquefied natural gas for Japan, and two Japanese companies are Shell's partners...
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation recently purchased Facebook’s closest competitor, MySpace.com, for $650 million, a move that drew attention to the vast advertising potential of social-networking sites...
...even breathe. It is not Chicago's new law that is outrageous but the inhumane luxury it prohibits. Owen Lubozynski Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. In mocking Chicago's newly enacted foie-gras ban, your writer insults not only the compassionate individuals who worked to pass this law but also the vast majority of U.S. citizens - nearly 80% of whom, according to a Zogby poll, support an end to foie-gras production. More than a dozen countries and the state of California have passed laws prohibiting this cruel practice. Far from being frivolous, Chicago's law codifies the humane values that...
Andrew J. Bestwick ’07 called for “free-trade spinach” even though the vast majority of spinach comes from California and the current outbreak has nothing to do with trade practices...
...perhaps the most underappreciated public resource in the Boston area. Although many grumble over its inconveniences, few could do without it, and many quite literally need it to survive. We may lament its early closing time or uneven schedule, but without the ‘T,’ vast swaths of the public, not just we tight-budgeted students, would be hamstrung...