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The Motley Fool November 29, 2004 Rich Smith	YUKOS' American Brain Drain The company is in the midst of a full-scale exodus of top officers, including both of YUKOS' American-citizen managers -- the chief financial officer and the chief executive -- despite neither one being under any official indictment.
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Detecting Marine Gas Hydrates To better find large enough deposits to extract, scientists are working to improve seismic profiling techniques and other tools for better mapping of gas hydrates.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2004 Rich Smith	Death and Taxes in Russia Fateful words. Over the past month, Russia's tax police have been very busy, "discovering" huge arrears in taxes owed for fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Total tax demands on YUKOS now stand at roughly $25 billion.
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Maureen Kline	The De Benedettis Are Back In Business Compagnie Industriali Riunite (CIR) share price has shot up 80% in the past two years. (The De Benedetti clan retains a 47% share.) The company, now focused on media and publishing, auto parts, and power, will post a 10% increase in profit over last year.
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Jason Bush	Oil: What's Russia Really Sitting On? As more Russian oil becomes recoverable, reserve estimates are skyrocketing. Recently revised estimates pushed its total proven oil reserves to 69.1 billion barrels, up from 45 billion bbl. in 2001. And that may just scratch the surface of its real potential.
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Catherine Yang	Easy Broadband -- And Smarter Power Web access from wall outlets is on the way, and utilities see even more on the horizon.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004	Tennessee Water Utility adopts RGB - Spectrum's Monitoring Technologies The new security command center uses RGB Spectrum's Quadra and QuadView multiple image display systems for around-the-clock monitoring.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2004 Rich Smith	SEC Targets Lucent Ex-Execs Investigation into alleged Saudi bribery by its Chinese subsidiary moves ahead. Lucent's stock has dropped 15% in value.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2004 Jeremy MacNealy	Supertanker-Sized Results As gas prices rise, so do ExxonMobil's stock and its cash flow numbers.
BusinessWeek November 15, 2004 Wendy Zellner	Crude Lessons About Oil Low-quality $35-a-barrel oil is plentiful, but refineries lack the capacity to handle it. The result is that the price of oil -- and of products made from it -- is higher and more volatile than it might be.
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