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...1990s for polluting the Niger Delta, is spending millions of dollars to combat malaria and aids in Africa, and is funding other initiatives aimed at improving the lives of those affected by oil exploration. Other firms have tried to make their peace with often-critical NGOs. British oil company BP, French retailer Carrefour and Swedish packaging manufacturer Tetra Pak are working with the World Wildlife Fund on environmental issues...
...same time, oil companies, worried that these changes could leave them behind, are starting to think of themselves instead as broad-based energy companies. "Shell and BP are already headed in that direction," says Amory Lovins, director of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a think tank that advocates a radical restructuring of the energy economy. Shell has become the largest seller of biofuels, he says: "We're talking about new processes for turning woody, weedy plants like switch grass and poplar--also crop waste like wheat straw--into cellulosic ethanol...
...BP: I would say two-thirds. I would say about one-third boys are usually in the [bookstore] lines, which is kind of cool. But I think part of it is because she's not a girlie-girl. She could be Johnnie B. Jones and the probably the stories wouldn't change very much...
...BP: No. I think I just monitor as it goes. One thing I have never liked-I've never thought it was funny to do bathroom humor, which tends to make little kids laugh a lot. To me, it's too easy of a joke...
...BP: I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home...