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...National Wildlife Refuge to help secure America's energy future? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR's oil would help ease California's electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country's energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude lies buried beneath the tundra, with the last government survey, conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion...
...heart of problem is this: It took Nature 3 billion years of evolution to produce cells that have the awesome power to develop autonomously, through staggeringly complex chemical reactions, into anything from a kidney cell to a full thinking human being. We are about to harness that power for crude human purposes...
...them concerned a scheme from 1980 and 1981, in which their U.S. company made nearly $100 million by selling oil at several times the government-controlled price then in effect. The indictment claimed that Rich's firm bought petroleum for as little as $5 per bbl., then ran the crude through a series of complex transactions that obscured its origin before selling it back to a Rich subsidiary at a markup as high as 400%. Much of the profit went to a Rich company in Switzerland, which paid no U.S. taxes on the allegedly ill-gotten gains...
These scheduling flaws are particularly harmful because NCAA selection committees in the past, across all sports, will likely make their picks based solely on crude statistical measurements like wins and losses, and not on the circumstances surrounding the game--like where the game was played, how rusty or overworked the teams were at game time, and how many Olympians were absent from each team on that...
Occasionally, SAS sells hard-to obtain products that are necessary for the projects in the column to amateurs, which gives a crude estimate of the number of people who are attempting the projects described. The most popular column demonstrated the phenomenon of audio illusions, which are roughly analogous to their visual counterparts; 700 copies were sold...