Word: drilling
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...years old when I began to show symptoms of autism: not talking, repetitious behavior and tantrums. Not being able to communicate in words was a great frustration, so I screamed. Loud, high-pitched noises hurt my ears like a dentist's drill hitting a nerve. I would shut out the hurtful stimuli by rocking or staring at sand dribbling through my fingers...
...Spatial words such as over and under had no meaning for me until I had a visual image to fix them in my memory. Even now, when I hear the word under by itself, I automatically picture myself getting under the cafeteria tables at school during an air-raid drill, a common occurrence on the East Coast in the early 1950s...
...rage between those who want to cordon off America's wild places and those who want to tap the oil and gas reserves that lie beneath them. Environmental groups were stoked last week by a Senate vote that killed--at least for now--George W. Bush's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but the greens are continuing to hammer Bush's environmental record. Protesters planned to don surgical masks and hound Bush on Earth Day, April 22, for his air-pollution policies. Friends of the Earth, which had refrained from criticizing the President since...
...thumper trucks" in Utah's Dome Plateau desert, a few miles from Arches National Park--until the Interior Department's appeals office temporarily halted the trucks, saying a more thorough assessment of environmental damage was needed. And now the Administration is considering a proposal to drill more than 50,000 methane-gas wells in Wyoming and Montana...
...only a couple of months away, and they insist that the rules will be considerably more enviro-friendly than activists fear. If the White House doesn't make good on that promise, environmentalists will pounce on the rules the same way they blasted back Bush's attempt to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The fight never ends...