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...great frontiers in the hunt for hydrocarbons. "I and a lot of other people in oil companies working in East Africa have long been convinced that it's the last real high-potential area in the world that hasn't been fully explored," says Richard Schmitt, chief executive of Black Marlin Energy, a Dubai-based East Africa oil prospector. "It seems, for a variety of geopolitical reasons, that more than anything else, it's been neglected over the last several decades. Most of those barriers are currently being lowered or [have] disappeared altogether." (See pictures of oil in Africa...
...Part of the reason is that there's not much reason for numbers that big to have names, since they're seldom used. But the scientist in Sendek is hopeful that the prefix's day might come. "We're always learning more about the universe, stars, black holes, planets and galaxies," Sendek says. "That's when those big numbers start to come...
...director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at BC, said she is interested in “how the Civil Rights legacy is being understood and reframed after 9/11” and why the Bush administration chose to link the “overcoming of black oppression” with the “so-called war with freedom and democracy...
...addition to studying media and popular culture, Young said she also hopes to look at immigration in America and the backlash against Latino immigrants from black groups...
Audience members suggested she contact more black war veterans, explore popular reaction to the television shows and music discussed in her paper, and also that she address the domestic implications that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have had on African American soldiers...