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...idle. A total of 806 rigs are currently operating in the U.S., down from 4,530 in 1981. The oil is there for the taking, of course, but it is simply too expensive to get out of the ground. While Middle East producers can find and lift a new barrel of oil for about $1, U.S. companies spend an average of more than...
...bulk of Challenger: A Major Malfunction consists of McConnell's reconstruction of the three days leading up to the doomed launch. He punctuates this narrative with flashbacks tracing the pork--barrel politicking and bureaucratic bungling that plagued the shuttle program from its inception...
...frowned upon, but three men are touted as front runners: Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez, a former governor of the state of Mexico; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz; and Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Minister of Budget and Planning. The P.R.I., traditionally uses lavish patronage and pork-barrel politics to ensure an impressive margin of victory...
CURRENTLY, THERE is good reason to believe that the AIDS virus is most efficiently transmitted in two ways. Through the sharing of needles, (but the practice apparently is much less hazardous when the sticks are minor and blood is not passed through the barrel of the needle). And second, through rectal or vaginal exposure to ejaculate carrying the virus...
...legendary soldiers who have survived long years in Viet Nam -- Elias by a kind of supernal sylvan grace, Barnes by simply refusing to die. Elias is Jesus crossed with Jim Morrison. He will literally take a load off Chris' shoulders, or share a fraternal toke with Chris through the barrel of a rifle, or moon over the night stars, or smile ingenuously at his killer. He is hard to know and harder to destroy, a creature of Stone's wild literary sentiment. Barnes, who says of some fresh corpses, "Tag 'em and bag 'em," has no sentiment at all. When...