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...even by their low standards, the news that began trickling out of Russia last week was appalling. A ruptured pipeline in the northwestern Komi republic has dumped a huge amount of oil onto the Arctic landscape, contaminating wetlands and fouling waterways. An eyewitness reported that on one river the crude has formed a noxious slick measuring six to seven miles long, 14 yards wide and a yard deep. The spill's total volume, say U.S. Department of Energy officials, could be as much as 2 million bbl., some eight times the amount dumped in Alaska by the Exxon Valdez...
...know the pipeline should have been repaired," said Vyacheslav Bibikov, Vice President of the Komi republic, in a testy meeting with reporters last week. "There's no money for it." Rather than stop the flow of oil and lose income, Komineft erected earthworks to contain the gathering crude. When the autumn rains came, the makeshift dikes crumbled, and the oil escaped...
...Harvard family will lose many talented individuals if it forces, with a crude tool of economic incentive, a choice between our commitment to our families or health, and our commitment to this University," the letter says...
...beauty and the camera dots generously on his face, studying it and worshipping it. His square jaw is offset by soft, plump lips, a long nose, and a lion's golden mane that cascades around his face like honey. He is able to be at once fey and masculine, crude and innocent. Few actors' looks are so captivating that all they have to do in a scene is give a certain stare while being magnetic and conveying a realm of desire and needs. The younger Depardieu is one such actor...
...exports are now among the fastest-growing items in the U.S. economy, they are still running well behind imports, resulting in a gargantuan and growing trade deficit. That, however, comes about in part because the country must import such huge quantities of raw products, from coffee and bananas to crude oil, that it either cannot produce at all or not in the quantities it needs. The great fear of a few years ago was that foreign rivals would also take over manufacturing businesses, particularly high-tech firms, and reduce the U.S. work force to hamburger flipping. That fear is pretty...