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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...
...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...
...stock. Despite the fact that Siemens virtually paid BenQ to take the troubled phone unit off its hands, Lee says he is "confident [BenQ] can turn around the operation." He plans to add handsets with fresher designs and more features, and use his new leverage in the industry to extract better deals from component suppliers. But cutting costs quickly will be tough. BenQ promised to keep a German factory employing 2,000 highly paid workers open at least until...