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...staff editorial “Protect the Refuge” (Editorial, March 5), The Crimson leaves out key facts that make the case for drilling very persuasive. The article says that the USGS predicts that there are only “3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable crude oil” in the reserve; however, that misrepresents the total amount available. The phrase “economically recoverable” only means the amount of oil “for which the costs of discovery, development, and production, including a return to capital, can be recovered at a given well...
...These days 200,000 people live here. There are no shops, just muddy, improvised bazaars. There is little work. Some residents scavenge bricks from ruins for resale, others sell the crude oil that bubbles up in many backyards - oil is one of the main prizes being fought over in this war. Many thousands depend on handouts from the few international agencies working in the city. Grozny's mayor, Beslan Gantemirov - amnestied in 1999 from a Russian prison where he was serving six years for embezzling municipal reconstruction funds after the last Chechen war in the mid-'90s - is highly visible...
Asteroids. Frogger. Centipede. Long before PlayStation was a twinkle in Sony's eye, these primitive video games with their blips and beeps and crude graphics, hallmark titles for the Atari 2600 game console, earned a sentimental spot in our hearts. And though the Atari 2600 more or less vanished 15 years ago, it's re-surfacing among nostalgic video-game enthusiasts...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is in Vienna again, putting their heads together over production cuts that could lop anywhere from 500,000 to 1,500,000 barrels of crude oil off their 25 million-per-day output. TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl explains what OPEC is after - and how the wrong move could put the global economy on a slippery slope...
...that crude. The hawks in the Bush administration - including Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney - are Cold War veterans who are not inclined to trust North Korea or China, which remains the behind-the-scenes sponsor of Korean rapprochement. They suspect that if Beijing managed to resolve the Korean conflict, it would remove Washington's rationale for stationing close to 40,000 troops on the Korean peninsula, between China and Japan - and that, the hawks fear, could dramatically tip the regional strategic balance in Beijing's favor...