Word: basins
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...Environmental Protection Agency will issue a crucial report on a plan to extract natural gas from an area in the Rocky Mountains four times the size of the proposed Arctic refuge site. The Administration says 25 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas is buried in Wyoming's Powder River Basin--enough to supply the U.S. for a year and worth up to $46 billion to energy companies. The Administration wants to green-light the drilling of more than 35,000 new methane wells in the basin by November. But environmentalists, along with local ranchers, are waging a fierce fight against...
...benevolent effect on cranes. More accurate is the situation in the Amur River border region between Russia and China, where both countries are more than willing to sell their rich natural resources to the highest bidder?with dire consequences for the cranes that dwell in the Amur basin. Matthiessen would stop the course of such progress cold. Yet Russia is desperately poor and China faces serious population pressure. Is it even faintly realistic to expect them to turn off the flow of foreign investment to save a bird, however lovely? Matthiessen doesn't overly dwell on environmental realpolitik. Birds...
...gold medallist, Frenchwoman Carole Montillet, was all but ignored by the American media, despite having the ride of her life down Snow Basin's Wildflower course. Montillet's victory was a great story - before claiming Olympic gold, the 28-year-old had never won a world-class downhill race in her life. She thrashed the competition by 45 hundredths of a second, an eternity in Alpine skiing...
...said that his luckiest break was joining the band and his second luckiest was leaving it. And he said once, "Being a Beatle was a nightmare, a horror story. I don't even like to think about it." He never really looked comfortable in his tight suit and pudding-basin haircut, not even in the fun-fest A Hard Day's Night, and in this he was perhaps the most honest Beatle, the one least convincing when wearing the mask. The standard line is that George Harrison was an enigma, but perhaps he was transparent: a terrific guitarist, a fine...
...said that his luckiest break was joining the band and his second luckiest was leaving it. And he said once, "Being a Beatle was a nightmare, a horror story. I don't even like to think about it." He never really looked comfortable in his tight suit and pudding-basin haircut, not even in the fun-fest A Hard Day's Night, and in this he was perhaps the most honest Beatle, the one least convincing when wearing the mask. The standard line is that George Harrison was an enigma, but perhaps he was transparent: a terrific guitarist, a fine...