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...recognition. Police say that the explosion was most likely caused by vandalism. The pipeline, which ran under a beach, had been uncovered. Small holes had been drilled in it through which thieves could tap off fuel. The leaking pipeline had attracted local villagers who were filling containers when it blew. Nigeria's Red Cross said that the explosion ignited hundreds of cans full of fuel. Yet incidents like last week's tragedy are not the greatest danger to Nigeria's oil industry. Nigerians have long vandalized pipelines, and some of the operations are organized and professional. In the Delta, gangs...
...squadron of microlight aircraft. Bombs were disguised to fit around, and even inside, the body. Among Tiger victims: a president, the head of the Sri Lankan air force, a minister of national security, an opposition leader and a former prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. In July 2001, they blew up half of the national airline's small fleet of jets...
...down production and evacuated crews from the oil and gas fields that his company operates in the Mississippi Delta. The CEO of EnerVest, a Houston energy-asset-management firm, was luckier than most. Katrina spared four of his fields, though the damage to a fifth was ugly. The storm blew a barge five miles down the bayou from its moorings in marshy Garden Island Bay. Nearly every piece of oil equipment was destroyed, and Walker estimates it will take several months to get that field running at full capacity. "When there's this much damage, there are only so many...
Bearing down and executing what looked like an immaculate game plan, Cole blew away the Princeton Tigers one by one—nine in a row during one stretch...
...passed to a streaking Liao, who gently lofted it over the Terrapin goalie as the buzzer sounded.“I saw my opponent had the ball and wasn’t paying attention,” Kennifer said. “I just grabbed it and when they blew the whistle, I just couldn’t believe it was our ball. I also couldn’t believe that one of my teammates was going up the pool. When she scored, I just jumped up in the pool. It was good momentum for us going into the fourth...