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...language of the gun." The nascent insurgency has made Nigeria's oil fields among the most dangerous in the world - and helped push global oil prices past $72 bbl. Nigeria was meant to be part of the solution to the insatiable demands for more oil from the U.S. and fast-growing China and India. When the country returned to civilian rule under President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, it was pumping around 1.8 million bbl. a day. Daily capacity had expanded to 2.5 million bbl. before the recent attacks; Nigeria is now the sixth biggest oil exporter in the world. Western...
...brick and concrete - much more substantial dwellings than the flimsy reed huts that are home to many people in the region. And there is a school, though it has been seriously vandalized, its rooms emptied of furniture donated by Shell. But the village, about 90 minutes from Warri by fast speedboat, is hardly thriving. A water tank installed about a decade ago doesn't work, forcing people to scoop their water from a muddy hole. Worst of all, complains Macaulay Elekute, another elder, there are no local jobs. Violence in the Delta is nothing new. Tribal conflict has plagued...
...touch fanciful? Don't tell him that. "You know where Puma was five years ago? Deeply troubled," Koné says of the now surging German-American sportswear group, whose sales last year exceeded $2 billion. "And six years ago, Airness scarcely existed. We didn't get this far this fast worrying about what we supposedly...
...freshman boat, even without the five freshman varsity rowers is so fast,” Demers said. “It speaks to the depth of our freshman walk-ons and recruits coming in—and it looks to continue in the future...
...provide answers yet, someday it probably will. Many of the problems we face are long term problems. Poverty isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. And the most interesting feature of technology lately isn’t what it can do, it’s how fast it’s changing...