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• UNITED STATES: Aboard the discover deep seas

  Published: September 3, 2007, 8:11 am

  Tags: Lower Tertiary, Chevron, Halliburton, Norway, Brasil, Devon Energy, Alaska, Deep Seas, Eni, Diamond Offshore, Wood Mackenzie, Tony Vaughn, Conocophillips, Mickey Driver, Hess, Transocean, Shell

  Deep sea drilling in the Gulf is chancy, but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• OIL STOCKS: Oil and gas stocks staged a big rally late Tuesday, riding record-high crude prices and a 180-point surge

  Published: September 11, 2007, 6:04 pm

  Tags: Opec, Valero Energy, National Oilwell Varco, Nymex, Oil Stocks, Hess, Exxonmobil, Shell, Oil Futures, Argentina

  By the Dow to rack up a set of solid gains. Oil... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• OIL WORLD: The SauiArabians and Crude futures fall back after record run

  Published: September 22, 2007, 2:56 am

  Tags: Valero Energy, Iea, National Oilwell Varco, Smith International, Noble, Sunoco, Hess, Saudiaramco, Exxonmobil, Shell, Gulf Of Mexico

  Royal Dutch Shell and Saudi Aramco on Friday said... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• An analysis of selected WSJ defensive plays

  Published: September 25, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: Att, Citigroup, Diageo, Genentech, Hess, Lockheedmartin, Microsoft, Sempraenergy, Sigmaaldrich, Walgreen

  $71 about a month ago. Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) Has kept costs under control while benefiting from oil's elevated price and the barely-adequate refinery infrastructure in the U.S. HES's chart is solid with the stock hitting a high for 2007 above $69 in the last few weeks. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Will continue to benefit from large U.S.

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• CatholicMom.com Reviews 'The Adoption Decision' & 'The Adoption Network'

  Published: September 28, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Adoption Books, The Adoption Decision, The Adoption Network, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Book Reviews, Catholicmom Com, Heidi Hess Saxton, Laura Christianson, Parenting

  Heidi Hess Saxton reviewed my new books, The Adoption Decision and The Adoption Network, in this week's adoptive parenting column at CatholicMom.com. Here's a brief excerpt from her review:Whether you are on your first adoption or your third (or more), there are times when you can use a helping hand and understanding ear. Laura

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• CatholicMom.com Reviews 'The Adoption Decision' & 'The Adoption Network'

  Published: September 28, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Adoption Books, The Adoption Decision, The Adoption Network, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Book Reviews, Catholicmom Com, Heidi Hess Saxton, Laura Christianson, Parenting

  Heidi Hess Saxton reviewed my new books, The Adoption Decision and The Adoption Network, in this week's adoptive parenting column at CatholicMom.com. Here's a brief excerpt from her review:Whether you are on your first adoption or your third (or more), there are times when you can use a helping hand and understanding ear. Laura

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• Coffee tips and tasting with an expert

  Published: October 2, 2007, 3:42 pm

  Tags: Berkeley, Coffee, Erica Hess, Panama Esmeralda Geisha, Peet S Coffee

  their coffee educator Erica Hess to promote the availability of their products around the City of Brotherly Love. My first exposure to Peet's coffee was Christmas when I was 14 years old. My cousins, knowing that I was getting an espresso maker from my parents, brought with them a pound of espresso roast from Peet's down from Berkeley as a

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• Watch for the New and Improved 401(k)s

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Watch, For, The, New, Improved, 401 K S, Hewitt Associates Inc, Pamela Hess, Countrywide Financial Corporation, Fidelity Investments, Mercer Human Resource Consulting Llc, Amy Reynolds, Jamie Cornell, Stephen P Utkus, U S Securities Exchange Commission, Vanguard S Cente

  What's in your 401(k)? Chances are that whatever it is, your options may change soon as employers try to come up with ways to improve their offerings to workers.

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• Giuliani Still Working at Firm He Promised to Leave

  Published: October 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Giuliani, Still, Working, Firm, Promised, Leave, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael D Hess, Giuliani Partners Llc, Scott Reed, Arizona, Oxycontin, Barack Obama, California, Colorado, Florida, Hillary Clinton, John Mccain, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Cnbc I

  Ten months into his presidential bid, Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to work part time at the security consulting firm he promised to leave this past spring to focus on his pursuit of the Republican nomination.

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• Nationstar Mortgage Exits Subprime

  Published: November 16, 2007, 11:28 am

  Tags: Lenders With Problems 2007, Mortgage Implosion, Subprime Implosion, Subprime Mortgage Industry, Nationstar, Fortress, Exits, Chec, Hess, Discloses, Centex

  vice president Steve Hess indicated. In March 2006, a unit of Fortress Investment Group agreed to purchase Centex Home Equity, a deal valued at about $575 million. After the sale, Fortress changed CHEC’s name to Nationstar. At the time of the deal, CHEC was the nation’s 28th-largest subprime lender. The lender no longer

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• The New Face of Global Mormonism

  Published: November 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: The, New, Face, Global, Mormonism, Nigeria, The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints, United States, Lagos, Salt Lake City, Africa, Deborah Hess, Gordon Hinckley, Newell Bringhurst, Rodney Stark, Brazil, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Texas, Utah, George Romney, Jan S

  LAGOS, Nigeria -- Outside Zion Osandu Ndukwe's one-room apartment, a naked toddler ran up and down a filthy hallway lit by a single candle. The power in the overcrowded slum was off yet again. The stench of urine from the communal bathroom overpowered the fragrance of spices in the bubbling soup ...

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• Two Minority Hiring Programs Shelved for Veterans

  Published: November 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Two, Minority, Hiring, Programs, Shelved, For, Veterans, Ibm Corporation, Bob Hess, Bob Leins, Charles Schumer, David Dean, John M Palguta, Kerry B Mctigue, Matthew S Olson, Stephen Barr, Tammy Flanagan, Merit Systems Protection Board, National Institute Of Transition Plan

  Two hiring programs created two decades ago to replace a civil service exam that was deemed biased against minorities are coming to an end. They have lost out in a legal clash over the government's obligation to show a preference to military veterans when filling jobs.

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• Two Minority Hiring Programs Shelved for Veterans

  Published: November 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Two, Minority, Hiring, Programs, Shelved, For, Veterans, Ibm Corporation, Bob Hess, Bob Leins, Charles Schumer, David Dean, John M Palguta, Kerry B Mctigue, Matthew S Olson, Stephen Barr, Tammy Flanagan, Merit Systems Protection Board, National Institute Of Transition Plan

  Two hiring programs created two decades ago to replace a civil service exam that was deemed biased against minorities are coming to an end. They have lost out in a legal clash over the government's obligation to show a preference to military veterans when filling jobs.

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• eNergySTOCKS: Big oil stocks rose, as the broader market lifted parts of the energy sector even as crude prices retreated below $90 a barrel

  Published: December 1, 2007, 5:10 am

  Tags: Enbridge, Western Refining, Energy Stocks, Exxonmobil, Repsol, Nrg Energy, Opec Meeting, Ari Raivetz, Conocophillips, Hess, Us Department Of Energy, North Slope

  New-found optimism over the health of the economy and the recovery from an oil pipeline blast stoked buying, but natural gas and oil services shares were little changed even after a refining margin... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• EUROPE - BRASIL: Galp, BG Rise as UBS Suggests Bigger Brazil Oil Find

  Published: December 12, 2007, 8:22 am

  Tags: Galp, Brasil, Petrobras, Sara Amaral, Santos Offshore, Oil Discovery, Hess, Repsol, Exxonmobil, Shell, Gustavo Gattass

  Galp Energia SGPS SA, Portugal's biggest refiner, and BG Group Plc rose to records after UBS AG said there may be a larger oil discovery near Brazil's Tupi offshore field, in which both companies have a stake. A geological formation beneath a 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) layer of salt in Brazil's Santos... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit

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