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Since the United States began drilling for petroleum, we have used 121 billion barrels. Today's technology can extract only about 27 billion more. If we develop more advanced extraction techniques, like recovering oil from shale, we can reach another 18-53 billion barrels.
As Mayor and as a City Councilor, Vellucci has distinguished himself as a spokesman for the individual against the institution. His successes range from public housing starts to a courageous campaign to bar the manufacture of never gas in a residential district of the city, to the extraction of $1.5...
Meanwhile, reporters discovered another Shinichi Hachiya living in Tokyo. He claims that a friend of Korean extraction had helped him apply for his passport four years ago and had kept it for a while, long enough to forge a copy. While police linked the friend to North Korean sympathizers living...
While the oceans are rising, some coastal land is actually sinking. Much of the East Coast, for example, is made up of silt sediments deposited from rivers, bays and inlets over the past 5,000 to 8,000 years. As the sediments gradually compress under their own weight, the surface...
Marriage, and training in tooth repair and extraction at Temple University, soon followed, with Stan sitting in with this band or that to earn some money while he learned his trade. Stan plays alto sax, clarinet and flute. For a few weeks in 1939, he actually played with the Glenn...