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...staff editorial “Protect the Refuge” (Editorial, March 5), The Crimson leaves out key facts that make the case for drilling very persuasive. The article says that the USGS predicts that there are only “3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable crude oil” in the reserve; however, that misrepresents the total amount available. The phrase “economically recoverable” only means the amount of oil “for which the costs of discovery, development, and production, including a return to capital, can be recovered at a given well...
...This is the 'New Japan' and it's spelled 'T-O-U-G-H.'" JESPER KOLL, chief economist at Merrill Lynch Japan, on the need for real reform, not old-style pork-barrel solutions...
...take one of his father's guns from a locked cabinet inside the apartment. "Andy took the key off the chain when his dad was sleeping," says Stevens. It's unclear whether Williams' father noticed the theft of the gun--a rare, German-made Arminius .22-cal. long-barrel revolver with an eight-shot capacity. But after the shooting, police retrieved seven other guns from the cabinet, which they said was properly locked...
...just minutes after emerging from a Lenten Mass Wednesday morning honoring the San Diego school-shooting victims, Bush walked into the cafeteria armed with a .22-cal. pistol, one of the 12 guns her father owned, and shot classmate Kimberly Marchese in the shoulder. Bush then placed the gun barrel against her own temple and announced that she wanted to kill herself. School staff and another student talked Bush out of pulling the trigger, and Marchese spent just one evening in the hospital. But if the outcome was far less bloody than what had taken place two days earlier...
...OPEC says its goal is price "stability" at $25 to $30 a barrel. As long as the production cuts turn out the way OPEC wants, it shouldn't cause the U.S. too much pain, because remember - almost half of the oil we use is pumped internally, so there's an economic argument for healthy oil prices here too. But if the price gets over $30, there are going to be problems...