Word: dorado
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Democrats - Barack Obama has taken Kansas, where Gov. Kathleen Sebelius gave him her endorsement. He has ties to the traditionally Republican state: His mother was born at Fort Leavenworth during World War II, and Stanley Dunham, her father and Obama's grandfather, was a native of El Dorado...
...Principe is part of a string of countries on the Gulf of Guinea, the right angle in Africa's west coast, which is the oil industry's new El Dorado. By some estimates, Africa holds 10% of the world's reserves, but that figure belies the importance West Africa has already achieved as a source of energy. According to Poisoned Wells, a new book on African oil by Nicholas Shaxson, an associate fellow with international affairs institute Chatham House in London, the U.S. imported more oil from Africa than from the Middle East in 2005, and more from the Gulf...
...their religious ceremonies. As part of the Muisca tribe's accession rites, for instance, a new chief was anointed in gold dust and sent on a raft into a lake, into which he'd hurl gold pieces as an offering to the gods. This ritual spawned the El Dorado legend of the fabled lost city coveted by Spanish conquistadors...
...Murphy, a $9 billion exploration and refining company, has remained in El Dorado (pop. 22,000) even though the south Arkansas oil fields were largely pumped dry decades ago; the company's 2006 revenues of $14 billion and after-tax earnings of $600 million derive from its wells in Africa, Asia, the North Sea and Canada, as well as the Gulf of Mexico. That it has prospered as El Dorado struggled spurred Murphy to action, says chairman and CEO Claiborne Deming. "This not a booming metropolis by any stretch," Deming notes, alluding to the toll that lumber imports have taken...
...There is college money available already but only to an extent," says longtime El Dorado High counselor Becky Ward. "Students may not be where they need to be, either academically for a scholarship or financially for an aid package. A lot of them are caught in the middle. We've had bright youngsters with enormous potential who had no option but to go to work. I don't think some people understand that...