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...technically recoverable oil” is between 5.7 and 16.0 billion barrels, as oil prices rise, so will the amount of oil economically recoverable. Furthermore, as the technology for oil drilling improves, oil companies are able to extract more oil at cheaper costs and at smaller deposit areas, which will also increase the amount available. With the 1998 estimates higher than the 1987 results, many predict that there might be even more oil available than can be detected by current surveying equipment...
...psyche a favor by developing a phobia. The world is a scary place, and young kids are inherently fearful until they start to figure it out. If you are living with a generalized sense of danger, it can be profoundly therapeutic to find a single object on which to deposit all that unformed fear--a snake, a spider, a rat. A specific phobia becomes a sort of backfire for fear, a controlled blaze that prevents other blazes from catching. "The thinking mind seeks out a rationale for the primitive mind's unexplained experiences," says psychologist Steven Phillipson, clinical director...
...LIBRARY DEPOSIT (2/10/01): Press reports show Denise Rich donated as much as $450,000 to the Clinton library...
...costs of operating a laundry facility can be broken down into three components: the cost of purchasing machines, the cost of maintaining those machines, and the cost of the energy and water consumption involved in using those machines. A rational individual would suppose that the money that students deposit into laundry machines goes directly and entirely towards paying off the aforementioned costs. After all, Harvard isn't in the laundry business for profit, right...
...inside of a coronary artery becomes damaged--usually as a result of chronic high blood pressure, high cholesterol or the deleterious effects of smoking. The body tries to repair the damage, and a kind of internal scab is formed. Years go by, and the scab develops into a fatty deposit, filled with cholesterol, proteins and bits of cellular detritus. Sometimes the plaque is quite stable, and nothing much happens. Other times, for reasons that are still unclear, it becomes inflamed and prone to rupture. If the plaque breaks open, a clot forms, choking off the supply of blood...