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During these same years, Congress prohibited drilling for natural gas offshore for environmental reasons. Earlier, in the 1970s, it had studied and then rejected building a natural-gas pipeline from the Arctic, where there are substantial gas reserves, south through Canada to serve the U.S. The worry was that Canada would hold the U.S. economic hostage; in fact, Canada has become the largest supplier of all types of energy...
...that year, however, imports were at their highest level ever, and domestic production had declined to levels not seen since 1950. Now President Bush has his own plan to jump-start oil production. He wants to begin drilling in a portion of the 1.5 million-acre arctic coastal-plain area of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), which covers a total of 19 million acres. According to the White House, the President "believes that opening this small area to environmentally responsible exploration would provide the resources necessary to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil and provide for greater...
First they flap northward in the spring to their Arctic nesting grounds--the geese, the pelicans, the storks, dozens of species. Then in the fall they wing back home to perhaps Africa or South America, prey to man's and nature's casual malevolence--the hunters, the oil slicks, the raptors--not to mention their own exhaustion...
...Crimson has not been able to practice outside the echoing confines of its makeshift indoor training facilities—save for a few hours on the frozen tundra of O’Donnell Field. For this weekend’s season opening series, the squad will finally leave the arctic Northeast for the sun-dappled diamonds of Bradenton, Fla. and six games against a host of generally weak opponents...
Despite a depleted squad and arctic temperatures, the Harvard men’s and women’s Alpine and Nordic ski teams still managed an 11th place finish at the Williams Winter Carnival last weekend...