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...nearly three-mile course that takes them on a scenic waterfront tour of Cambridge. It’s a tour that they might enjoy a bit more if they weren’t drawing upon every ounce of strength in their bodies. The race begins in the Charles River Basin, between MIT and Boston University, and ends at a point in the river just past the Harvard University campus...
...course begins in the Charles River Basin, where crews line up in preparation for their staggered start. An umpire in a launch calls each crew one-by-one to the starting line at 10-second intervals...
...NATURAL GAS: Current Percentage of overall power production: 2.9% Percentage by 2010: 5% MAJOR PROJECTS: The 4,000-km West-East gas pipeline is expected to begin delivering 5,000 cubic meters of gas annually from next year from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang to Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta area. Anxious to clean up its sooty air in time to host the 2008 Olympics, Beijing has purchased some 1,800 buses that run on compressed natural...
...exporter until 1993. Today, however, output from China's top four oil fields is in decline. By some estimates, the country's current proven reserves will be depleted in as few as 14 years. Meanwhile, largely untapped petroleum pools believed to lie beneath western China's desolate Tarim Basin are uneconomic to drill, even with prices at $50 a barrel...
...planned oil pipeline covering the same distance has also seen no takers. Shell and Unocal also backed out of a multibillion-dollar project this month to tap gas fields under the East China Sea. And no foreign companies have been willing to participate in drilling in the Tarim Basin, considered China's last onshore region with major untapped reserves. The oil is thought to be of low quality, and moving it out of the isolated Taklamakan desert is just too expensive. "China's state-run companies sometimes operate for the national interest," says a Beijing-based executive of a foreign...