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...after a hibernation which started at the end of my childhood—presented me with a creepy Olsen-twinsesque beast. That oversized head, doe, drugged-out eyes, and sharp physique was certainly not the pony that I galloped around my bedroom mountains.When the ’80s toy revolution began a year or two ago, I was elated. Finally, proof that it wasn’t only my own Peter-Pan-complexed self that believed these playthings were far superior to the more technologically advanced but ultimately soulless products of today. Certainly this decision was probably, in part, based...
...able to continue its habit of outperforming itself on the second day, but managed to hold onto its lead. Bode and Hazlett both shot 82, allowing Bode to maintain her first-place position and bumping Hazlett into the number two slot. Cronan and Balmert shot in the 80s as well. Along with Rooney, they finished in the top 10 individually. The Crimson’s cumulative team score of 650 was 15 strokes lower than second-place University of Hartford. Harvard will return to the Ballymeade Country Club in April for the Ivy League Championships, where it hopes to repeat...
...what's the hold-up? The main obstacle has always been economics. From the mid-80s until 2003, oil prices-ever volatile--averaged out to about $25 a barrel. Making gasoline synthetically was way too expensive in comparison-$40-$46 per barrel. But with oil in the $60 range, liquefied coal is looking better than ever. "If one were assured of some stability in that base price, then they'd say, 'Oh, I guess I will invest the $6.5 billion it takes to build a coal liquification plant," David Garman, Under Secretary of Energy, told TIME...
...price of oil has always fluctuated. In inflation-adjusted dollars, it was higher in the early '80s than it is today. Extraction technologies continue to improve much faster than supply horizons recede. We've got the right know-how and the right planet. What we lack is the political will...
...something old, with an air about it of discomfort and duty: conservation. There's nothing particularly sexy or chic about consolidating shopping trips, carpooling, turning the thermostat down in winter and up in summer, or biking to the office and back, but it does work. In the early '80s, in the midst of soaring oil prices, we doubled the average efficiency of cars, furnaces and insulation. Katrina and Rita might not have pushed us into another energy-crisis mind-set yet. With the inevitable price jolts to come, though, we're heading that way soon enough...