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...know the drill: uggy fauna must be confronted, nasty flora must be cut through. And then there's the not entirely plausible pirate attack to be beaten off. All this, naturally, provides the occasion first for bickering, then for dawning mutual respect, finally for bonding. All in all, one cannot say that originality is screenwriter Michael Browning's strong suit. You always feel that you're ahead of this movie's curve...
Across the globe, a Canadian oil company makes plans to drill on a South American Indian tribe's ancient burial ground, changing its plans only when thousands of U'wa Indians threaten to throw themselves off a cliff in a mass suicide...
...basic skills they need and our schools hate to teach. As a college teacher, I see the sorry outcome: students who can't write worth a damn, who lack basic math and language skills. Our schools are scared to tell students to sit down and shut up and learn; drill it, memorize it, because you must master it whether it's fun or not. Children pay the price for our educational cowardice...
...carry up to 1 million bbl. a day in five years. At the bar of the Ragin' Cajun, a hot spot in Baku, a veteran of oil fields from Texas to Siberia explains, "The game's called pipeline poker. The Caspian is crazy. It's landlocked. We can drill all the oil you'd ever need...
...most important aspect of the weekend, however, is the opportunity for expression the weekend gives to artists within the Harvard community. Events this year range from On Thin Ice and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra to "Unintentional Arson" and "Drill Performance and Trick Rifle Maneuvers...