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...like, the kind that can change a country's energy fortunes? The answer can be found 700 miles north of Montana near a onetime frontier outpost in Alberta called Fort McMurray. At Syncrude Canada's North Mine, a huge open pit nearly two miles across and 250 ft. deep, giant shovels scoop out a petroleum-soaked deposit called oil sand that is beginning a long journey from here into the gas tanks of American cars. The region contains enough of the crude mixture to produce an estimated 175 billion bbl. of oil, eight times the known deposits of conventional crude...
Everything here is done on a scale that would make Paul Bunyan feel right at home. The electric-powered shovels that mine the sands are several stories tall. Dozens of giant yellow earthmoving trucks lumber in and out of the mine carrying tons of freshly excavated sand. The largest ones weigh as much as 400 tons--more than 200 times the size of the average car. The trucks use huge tires that cost $55,000 each. The drivers sit so high above ground that one says piloting these behemoths is "like driving a two-story house from the second-floor...
There is no tribute too big for this giant of a man. Cash was a true American hero. His music knows no genre or boundary; he was a tremendous inspiration to so many people. JULIE JACOBSON Woodbury...
...firm's San Francisco headquarters is festooned with games--a giant Pinocchio marionette, a glow-in-the-dark walk-through cave and a secret bookshelf that opens into another room, like something out of the old TV spy sitcom Get Smart. "We try to inject fun into everything we do," says Moog...
...There is no tribute too big for this giant of a man. Cash was a true American hero. His music knows no genre or boundary; he was a tremendous inspiration to so many people. Julie Jacobson Woodbury...