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...that spans 4.6 billion years. Beginnings and middles can get lost in this world without end. Geology, which never tires of repeating itself, is oblivious to the need for plot and moral. Despite quakes and eruptions, the earth is agonizingly incremental, and McPhee must use all his skills to extract its story. On the reluctant process of diamond formation: "They want to be graphite, and with a relatively modest boost of heat graphite is what they would become, if atmospheric oxygen did not incinerate them first. They are, in this sense, unstable-these finger-flashing symbols of the eternity...
Carbon-dioxide injections are just one of a panoply of methods for pepping up senescent wells. All have arisen because conventional pumping can extract only about one-third of the contents of a field before the flow stops. When oil prices were still rising, experts predicted that enhancing techniques could more than double U.S. recoverable reserves, which now stand at about 30 billion bbl. But some current projections are for an increase in reserves of closer to 50%. That would still be enough to keep U.S. wells flowing into the middle of the 21st century...
...investors have blamed much of Canada's trouble on two policies initiated by Trudeau. In 1973 his government created the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA) to screen foreign takeovers and, more recently, to approve new foreign investment in Canada. U.S. businessmen have complained about government arm twisting to extract additional economic concessions in exchange for investment approvals. Lengthy FIRA delays in considering their investment applications have also caused many businessmen to send their money elsewhere. In 1980 Ottawa launched the National Energy Program (NEP), which was designed to increase Canadian oil and natural gas production. In addition...
...Reagan's plan to solve the Palestinian problem by linking the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan. The Arabs at Fez had come closer than ever before to a recognition of Israel's right to exist, but the President hoped to extract a more explicit commitment from his visitors. "We believe the time has come to stop talking about talking about peace and start sitting down at the table," a senior State Department official said on the eve of the visit. Although Reagan did not get the statement he sought, he hailed...
...loaded planes, the helicopters' swirling blades had kicked up clouds of dust. In the poor visibility, one of the helicopters had flown into the nose of the airplane, which itself was preparing to take off. The two aircraft were engulfed in flames, and it was impossible to extract the bodies of the dead Americans. All others were loaded into the other five C-130s and left Desert One, en route to Masirah, a small island off the coast of Oman. Our men had been on the ground about three hours...