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Most saintly miracles involve unexpected cures in cases where people have prayed for help and no purely medical relief seems possible. When diagnosis was still crude and effective medical treatment rare, it was easier to claim miraculous recoveries. But in these days of wonder drugs and chemotherapy, "miracles" are checked out in detail with teams of physicians and are harder to come by. This is one reason why Kateri's cause languished for 37 years before beatification...
Hundreds of feet below the thick Antarctic ice, fully submerged oil pumping stations sit on the floor of the Weddell Sea. Onshore, battered by bitter cold and shrieking winds, oilworkers control the steady stream of rich, black crude that flows from the underwater wells through pipelines and into coastal storage tanks. Science fiction? Yes-at least for the moment. But later this year Japan and West Germany will begin the first serious drilling for oil in Antarctica, a continent that most geologists believe contains large quantities of crude. This new push is just another example of the increasing worldwide energy...
...that rapidly surging demands for oil would shortly outpace production and the then known supplies. But on both occasions, higher oil prices prompted new exploration and, eventually, enough new oil finds to turn the looming famine into a feast. Now the rising costs and sometimes uncertain supplies of OPEC crude, together with the decontrol of U.S. oil prices, are prompting yet another all-out search...
...them, and their women, are obsessed with being cowboys. But Houston is a city of crude, not dudes, and so these men dress up in pointy boots, fat belts and straw stetsons to swig beer and suffer the whine of C&W at Gilley's, the biggest nightclub in the world. At Gilley's Travolta manages to fall in and out and in love with a cute kid named Debra Winger. For some reason, their parents don't attend their wedding, which takes place, naturally, at Gilley's. This all purpose saloon reeks of Coors and looks like a Shriners...
Freeze-dried until needed, then sprinkled on straw and tossed into the ocean, the superbugs could presumably make quick work of oil spills by breaking down the crude into harmless protein and carbon dioxide. Says Chakrabarty, 42, now a researcher at the University of Illinois Medical Center: "You can make tons of these microorganisms in a matter of days." Nor, he says, would the bacteria pose any danger. After the feast, they would die for want...