| North West Shelf Venture Delays New LNG Contracts (Update2)
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The North West Shelf venture, Australia's biggest liquefied natural gas project, said it may delay signing new fuel supply contracts with customers because it expects prices to rise. The project operated by Woodside Petroleum Ltd. is halting further agreements until closer to the start-up of its fifth production line, scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2008, said Peter Cleary, head of the venture's marketing arm. Two accords poised to be signed with existing Japanese customers will go ahead, he said, declining to name them. The A$19 billion ($15 billion) North West Shelf venture is increasing output to benefit from soaring demand in Japan, South Korea and China. The price of Australian LNG shipped to Japan has gained 89 percent since April 2002.
The 10 best Super Bowl ads of all time
Thirty-four years ago this month, Farrah Fawcett sensuously applied Noxzema to Joe Namath's manly chin - touching off an escalating arms race of expensive Super Bowl commercials that have frequently been more entertaining than the games. Last year, advertisers weren't shy about spending $2.5 million on a 30-second commercial, but only the Budweiser "Magic Fridge" commercial came within striking distance of our Top 10 list. Below are the best Super Bowl commercials of all time, the keys to their success and the prospects of the company after the spot aired. As you can see, just because people are still talking about an ad more than 20 years later doesn't mean the product changed the world: 10. Budweiser "Frogs" (1995): Three frogs, perched on a log outside a bar, croaking, "Bud .
Power of sister's love helps pass new law
S heryl Silver remembers this week in January, 10 years ago. Her older sister, Johanna Silver Gordon, a Southfield teacher, then 54, had just been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Silver, a freelance editor and writer, was baffled, angry and astonished by the decline of her sister -- playing tennis on Saturday, hospitalized and terminally ill three days later. Something could have been done, she believed. And then, doing research, she knew. After Gordon's death in 2000, Silver waited to see if promising diagnostic tests for ovarian cancer would come to market. But they did not. And women continued to die from ovarian cancer -- because 80 percent of the time, the disease spreads before the diagnosis. "Women shouldn't have to rely on luck to survive," says Silver, who learned that gynecological diseases often have warning signs that go unnoticed.
Whatever's wrong, there's a drug for you, or so TV ads say
Carolyn Mellon gets antsy when she sees drug ads on television touting "everything you can think of and things you don't," mostly because she feels the barrage of sales pitches waste her time, and even question her intelligence. "There's something for everything and something for everyone," says Mellon, 64, a real estate agent and self-professed jogging addict who lives in Buckhead. .
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