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...course, not everyone has reacted as I have to the weather. My physics major roommate has begun ground-breaking research on a thermostat-controlled pajamas. My actor roommate uses the weather to inspire soliloquies set in the Arctic North. And my humanities roommate divides his time between exploring the ontological implications of "cold" and using the lack of "artificial heat" as a creative pick-up line...
...alas, the Big Green's Justin Head banged home the game winner against the Crimson, sweeping away the imagery like a gust of Arctic Hanoverian wind...
...Arctic offers giant possibilities. So does the entire Pacific Rim -- Indonesia, Australia, China, even Vietnam. And there's Eastern Europe, the North Sea, Africa. There's as much oil, and more gas, to be discovered worldwide as we've found throughout history...
...environment was the overwhelming favorite. But in the month since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which has pushed oil prices from $17 a bbl. to more than $30, the political mood has changed rapidly. The prime focus of the debate is the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a pristine wilderness area that may hold the largest untapped oil deposit...
...cheaply in the 800- mile trans-Alaska pipeline, which has a good safety record. Environmentalists, however, see the drilling as a gross intrusion on one of the last untouched wilderness areas. Many Eskimos favor development because they would legally share in the income. But the Gwich'in Indians in Arctic Village (pop. 100) near the refuge bitterly oppose it. "This is a simple issue. We have the right to continue our way of life. We are caribou people," says Sara James, a tribal leader...