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At first glance, it looks like any other oilfield, with acre upon acre of pumps rhythmically nodding up and down as they suck up the crude oil trapped in rock below the surface. But the Guadalupe, Calif., oil patch 50 miles northwest of Santa Barbara is no ordinary oilfield. Like...
Building a better mousetrap was too prosaic for Boston-born Veterinarian Henry Foster. Instead, he built a better mouse-millions of them. Thirty years ago, Foster, whose degree came from a nonaccredited school in Massachusetts, paid $1,300 for some traps and pens from an abandoned Maryland rat farm, shipped...
MARRIED. Mukarram Jah Barkat Ali Khan, 45, eighth Nizam (ruler) of the former Indian principality of Hyderabad and heir to what was one of the world's great fortunes; and Helen Simmons, 31, daughter of a retired Australian steel executive and mother of the couple's 15-month...
The headlong rush for freedom was touched off after six asylum-seeking Cubans in a bus rammed through the embassy gate; in the fracas, a policeman was killed. Cuban authorities subsequently announced that they were withdrawing their guards from the embassy. Havana has had an ongoing dispute with Peru and...
Appraisers hired by the city fixed the value of the land, a one-acre parcel of weedy open space located north of Lesley College, at $480,000 two years ago. An appraisal done by the city last year set the value at $750,000.