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...potential. In the most recent study, in 1998, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that there could be between 3 billion and 16 billion bbl. of oil in Area 1002. In 1989 the Senate Energy Committee was ready to authorize drilling when the Exxon Valdez disaster spilled almost 11 million gal. of oil, polluting more than 1,000 miles of Alaskan shoreline. The bill was shelved. Six years later, during the Newt Gingrich era, Republicans pushed another bill, but President Clinton vetoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Wild Place: War Over Arctic Oil | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...accomplice. (Yes, she told Matt Lauer last week, she'd be willing to testify.) Maybe Lopez believes in honoring TV commitments, or maybe she simply has unsquashable cojones, but there's no doubt she's got It. She is what the old movie moguls would have called a game gal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Butts About It | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...play perkily yuppyish. Her Mary is smart, nice and sexy; if boys dreamed of future brides and not of instant hookers, she would star in a million fervid fantasies. The film is unlikely to win critical raves, but we'll give Lopez a pass on this one. The game gal can't win every game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Butts About It | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...talking. "Brazil is an intense place," says Beck. "The music can be gentle but there's a lot of life happening on the street." He goes on to talk about his favorite Brazilian performers. "There are tons of them - everyone from Jobim to Caetano. Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Gal Costa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...there was a huge section of MPB that featured such younger artists as Marisa Monte (a fine young vocalist who is a bit like Dido or Beth Orton with some samba thrown in), the ska-pop-reggae band LS Jack, and such veterans as Chico Buarque, Ivan Lins and Gal Costa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 2 | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

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