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...just can't keep Big Oil down. Trouncing analysts' expectations Tuesday, BP and Royal Dutch Shell, Europe's largest oil companies, delivered record profits for the first quarter of 2008. Anglo-Dutch firm Shell netted $7.78 billion in the first three months of this year, up 12% over the same period in 2007. Profits at rival BP, meanwhile, swelled by almost half to $6.59 billion. Shares in each firm climbed almost 5% on the news...
...things called classes stand in most students way from being able to have hour-long sessions of filling out forms under the watchful gaze of college staff. Much of this planning is done at night, during students’ free time. If University Hall agrees to burn the midnight oil, then perhaps they could justify eliminating online forms. However, this step only represents one more bureaucratic hurdle set up against fun. (Not to mention that printing out hundreds of PDFs a year doesn’t quite align with University Hall’s goal for a green campus.)Other...
David Rockefeller ’36, the grandson of the famous oil magnate and a longtime Harvard benefactor, has donated $100 million to the University...
...which was compiled by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. (EIS’s are required for any type of major project that will affect the environment.)The 3,800-page document compiled by the Corps found that Cape Cod’s dependence on fossil fuels, foreign oil, and natural gas would all be reduced by the Cape Wind project. Additionally, the price of electricity in any market spot in New England would drop, and the Cape Cod economy would benefit from an influx of new and related projects. This study went on to research and analyze other...
...tried to coerce him with economic sanctions and schoolboy bluster-a policy course that ended on in the autumn of 2006, when Kim tested a nuclear weapon, precisely the opposite of the result Bush intended. Since then, the Administration has tried bribery, offering blandishments like food and free fuel oil in hopes that in return North Korea would stand down its nuclear program. Kim has responded a bit-his nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, which produced the fissile material for the North's estimated 8 to 10 nuclear bombs-is slowly being shut down. But Kim has refused to detail...