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David asked if his drill sergeant would be at the Reception Station when he got there; he didn't want him to see all that hair; David's hair was about as long as Joan Baez's. I said he wouldn't care anyway, probably 10,000 kids a year showed up with hair that long...
...m.p.h. gale is blowing in a blinding sheet of snow. The seas are pounding in 15-ft. waves, and all sensible fishermen have long since headed for port. But here, in the glare of arc lamps, heavily clothed figures are wrestling with craneloads of drill casings, dancing about on the slippery, freezing deck like madmen. No need to shout here: the screaming wind and throbbing drill machinery make conversation next to impossible...
...size that is towed "on location" atop three sturdy stilts that float on huge pontoons. The pontoons are then filled with water and submerged 146 ft., giving the barge the stability of an iceberg. The barge is securely steadied by electronically controlled ballast and nine anchors while its drill probes into the sea bottom 340 ft. below. Already the drill is bringing up samples from 2,000 ft. below the shelf. The samples are carefully analyzed for hints of oil, but the drill may have to bite as deep as 17,000 ft. to find a real gusher...
Subterranean reservoirs filled with superheated water or brine - not steam - are much more common, but rights to them are selling for as low as $1 an acre. Since exploration techniques are still rudimentary, the best way to get at the hot water is to drill and pray for success. Sinking a 5,000-ft. well costs about $125,000. If a driller hits, he still can be disappointed by the mixture of steam and briny water that hisses to the surface. Sometimes it is too cool to use efficiently; often it is laden with minerals and impurities that "crud...
...dismissal were given as her subjection to Harvard's eight-year rule which in essence says that a teacher must be given tenure after eight teaching years or be released [Mrs. Mao is currently in her eighth lectureship year after four "non-credit" years as a Chinese language drill instructor], and the department's inability to afford another long-term financial commitment associated with tenure (even with the federal funding). During the time between the first notice of her dismissal and the return of the funding, an eventually ineffective petition was drafted and circulated by her students. At the present...