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Call it a blowout, a humiliation, or a mismatch. Which ever you prefer, the Harvard varsity water polo team thoroughly dominated a hapless squad from Boston University last night at Blodgett Pool en route to a 30-7 victory...
...added that although 23,000 offshore wells have been drilled in the United States, only one has had a serious blowout and it did not result in any lasting damage to fish or beach
With the possible exception of the team itself, few had expected such a blowout. And after a loosely played first period dominated by sloppiness and missed opportunities on both sides, neither squad was in control...
...solar, move to mandatory conservation, and, of course, drill for more domestic oil. Last week, overriding objections of environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt an Interior Department auction of leases to explore for oil on the Georges Bank off Massachusetts. Environmentalists fear that a spill or blowout could harm the rich fishing waters, but the court decision was yet another sign that the U.S. will have to make difficult compromises to secure energy...
...bright side, the size of the latest blowout implies a major new find by Pemex. Director General Jorge Diaz Serrano estimates that the immediate area contains as much as 800 million bbl. of top-quality lightweight crude and "will considerably increase Mexico's oil reserves." Before this strike, the country's proven reserves of oil and gas stood at the equivalent of 40 billion bbl., well above those of both Venezuela and Nigeria but still far below Saudi Arabia's 160 billion bbl. Though Mexico is not a member of OPEC, it took a page from...