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...director was in Berlin attempting to buy a large swath of land on a hill known as Teufelsberg, or "Devil's Mountain," on the city's outskirts. The hill is made up of some 12 million cubic meters of rubble cleared away after Berlin was destroyed in World War II; the site was later used as a U.S. listening post during the Cold War. Lynch and Schiffgens are followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who founded the concept of transcendental meditation. Schiffgens says that with Lynch's help he plans to build a gleaming new "university" on Teufelsberg in order...
...explore in seven offshore blocks, Malaysia this summer launched the deepwater Kikeh field, and Indonesia expects production from its vast Cepu oil field to start next year. East Timor could earn at least $10 billion from the Gap, and Burma has discovered offshore fields that could contain 2.5 trillion cubic feet (70.8 billion cubic meters...
...believe it hasn’t—they would be worth more than $15 million today. Chevron, meanwhile, owns a 28.3 percent working interest in a production and pipeline venture in Burma. By Chevron’s own account, the venture yielded an average of 683 million cubic feet of natural gas each...
According to the Draft Project Impact Report, Harvard has petitioned the city to get rid of about 50 parking spaces along Western Avenue to make way for the trucks that will carry away the soil from the excavation on the construction site. Approximately 2,000 cubic yards per day will be removed, which will require between 100 and 150 trucks to come to the site daily, depending on the remoteness of the dump site that the contractors will eventually pick...
...persevered, visiting residents and charming them with courtly Dari and Afghan social graces burnished by his earlier visits to the country (his 2002 trek across Afghanistan formed the basis of his best-selling travel memoir The Places In Between). His first project was to rid the area of 900 cubic meters of trash-a triumph that earned him much gratitude. "We didn't trust him at first," says Aziz. "So many foreigners come in with great promises, and nothing ever happens...