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...boiling points. The lighter the chemical composition of the desired product, the lower the temperature needed to separate it from the crude. It's not cheap; refining costs account for nearly 19% of the price of gas sold in Britain. Today's refineries are so efficient that they can extract 44.6 gallons of refined petroleum products from a 42-gallon bbl. of crude. That's good, but not good enough, especially not after Katrina knocked out 10% of U.S. refining capacity. Sixty-seven percent of America's oil demand comes from its transportation sector and even before the storm...
With the public increasingly unwilling to pay those costs, the U.S. faces hard questions. Can political success still be salvaged from an unwinnable military fight after the series of failures (see following story) that have marked the U.S. enterprise in Iraq? How can the U.S. extract itself without compounding the damage done to U.S. interests in the region? After a month in the al-Qaeda-dominated Syrian border region, TIME spent 10 days on the front lines of the war, having lived with U.S. and Iraqi troops as they prepared for the battle of Tall 'Afar, one of al-Zarqawi...
...pilot circled the house and got into position. Two para-rescue jumpers (PJs), the Air Force?s elite operators trained to go behind enemy lines and extract downed pilots, strapped into a hoist and descended to the slippery tile roof, aiming for the chimney which crumbled under their weight. The PJs chopped through the roof and went inside, surprised to find all eight people squatting in Edna's apartment. They hoisted them out one by one. Edna's mother, Flora, came up with her walker. Her friend Mary came up with her cane. None of them brought anything more than...
...focused on whether the Lapita people originated among Neolithic farmers of Taiwan before moving through Melanesia and into Polynesia, or whether the Lapita culture was indigenous to the Bismarck Archipelago. In Auckland, Matisoo-Smith's lab has begun the intricate task of following that trail by trying to extract dna from the bones. Only one other study of ancient dna, collected from a range of younger sites, has ever been done in the region, and it was undertaken, Matisoo-Smith says, when less rigorous protocols produced less reliable results. While her results are still incomplete, Matisoo-Smith says the Teouma...
...bargaining table; nor is it certain that Kim will accept a deal that could effectively give Seoul the power to turn off the lights in Pyongyang. More important, nobody knows if Kim has decided to come back to the table to negotiate away his nukes, or to extract more concessions and sidestep the risk of sanctions if he hangs on to them. "That's the $20,000 question," says Gordon Flake, a North Korea expert at the Washington, D.C.-based Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs...