Week in review

TUESDAY

Oil futures surged to a record of more than $120 a barrel, raising concerns about higher prices for gasoline and goods and services throughout the economy. Retail gas prices fell more than a cent over the weekend.

“Attorneys general from 50 states gathered in Coeur d’Alene to discuss how their role as states’ chief legal advisers intersects with energy policy.

“A Denver- based development company is negotiating with Washington State University to transform a 3.5-acre portion of its Riverpoint Campus into a health care, academic and research center housed in two new three-story buildings.

WEDNESDAY

Americans are so addicted to their comfortable lifestyles that even $120-a-barrel oil is unlikely to change their behavior, Shell Oil Co.’s president said.

“French-owned energy services company Areva NC Inc. will build a $2 billion uranium enrichment plant near the eastern Idaho city of Idaho Falls, not in Richland.

“Spokane’s unorthodox online art gallery Artocracy.org won a “people’s voice” Webby Award. Artocracy was one of five Web sites nominated for best site in the arts division. The annual Webby Awards selects winners in more than 100 categories.

THURSDAY

A Coeur d’Alene manufacturer recently landed an order from Britain’s national health agency for 7,500 keyboards it markets to hospitals to help prevent the spread of germs that cause infections. The roughly $1.5 million deal is a boost for Advanced Input Systems.

“Washington state-based Clearwire and Sprint Nextel said they will combine their wireless broadband units to create a $14.55 billion communications company.

FRIDAY

Facebook, the world’s second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from Washington, Idaho and other states said.