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...that the world is running out of oil. There are massive reserves available in Canadian tar sands, Colorado shale, Venezuelan heavy oil and other unconventional deposits. The problem is that most of this oil is hard to extract and even harder to refine, and it isn't likely to account for a significant share of global production anytime soon. Almost everybody agrees that the pumping of conventionally sourced oil outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has already peaked or will peak soon, a reality that even discoveries like the recent 8 billion-bbl. find off the coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peak Possibilities | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...celebrate the 15th anniversary of his best-selling Angel fragrance, Thierry Mugler has introduced La Parte des Anges, a perfume extract. Treated in the manner of cognac, La Parte des Anges is the result of aging Angel in a cherrywood cask for 23 weeks. Intensely concentrated, each of the numbered bottles contains a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limited Edition | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

Instead, Petersen said that the user might have been downloading articles for “text-mining,” a research method that uses complex natural language processing to extract information from, and identify patterns in, large aggregations of text...

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Banned User Abused Factiva | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...sadness, and hope, Baumbach’s vision concentrates too much on characters to leave them so exposed. The script begins to go south shortly after Kidman’s husband, John Turturro, makes an unexpected visit. Suddenly, Baumbach seems to pour every hateful word he can extract from Kidman’s character into the dialogue, rendering her no longer the frigid matron but the spiteful shrew of the story. She spews acid at everyone from her sister to her own son, seemingly devoid of compassion. The relatable qualities of her character are spoiled, and, while Black and Leigh...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Margot at the Wedding | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...Eastern foothold, in what is now Syria, in 1303. From there, the decline was precipitous: The Templars failed in an effort to take control of Cyprus, and then, in 1307, Philip IV of France found it more convenient to order the arrest and torture of the Templars to extract confessions of heresy than to repay his heavy debts to the order. This led to the trial under Pope Clement, who was based in Avignon and under the protection of Philip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican and the Knights Templar | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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