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When word got out that a filling station in the Atlanta suburb of Buckhead had received a fresh supply of regular unleaded, the line began forming well before dawn. Thanks to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which crippled Gulf Coast refineries, drivers in the Southeast are creeping around town with their gas gauges on empty, searching for a pump that isn't dry. And while oil companies said supply would improve by Columbus Day, the long lines aren't the only thing giving us déjà vu. We've got an unpopular President in the White House, trouble with Iran...
...could set M*A*S*H in the Persian Gulf, which would be interesting. That show was always a very sharp commentary on American foreign policy. But it was often undermined by that terrible laugh track they used to have on it, which would fool you into thinking the show wasn't as incisive or clever as it actually...
...critics, the plan smacks of oil-fueled excess - of a piece with the mad dash across the Arabian peninsula, to build the tallest, biggest glitziest structures money can buy. Their coffers bulging with surpluses, many Persian Gulf states are turning their desert into one giant construction site. There's the City of Silk project in Kuwait, Dubailand in Dubai, and any number of ports, airports, universities and giant residential and industrial complexes coming up in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and elsewhere. KAEC "is not a vanity project, but there is definitely a statement being made," says a Riyadh businessman...
...some cases, ships are purposely introduced to the underwater landscape. In 2006 the U.S. Navy sank the decommissioned WWII aircraft carrier U.S.S. Oriskany off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., in the Gulf of Mexico and turned it into an artificial reef. It is the first and so far only artificial-reefing project undertaken by the Navy Inactive Ships Program, which is charged with disposing of old warships (which are typically dismantled and recycled or turned into museums). It took nearly $20 million to ready the ship for safe sinking in accordance with standards set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...suggests that we already have enough volunteering available in America. How then can you explain the fact that there are more than 3 applicants for every available AmeriCorps slot, or that Teach For America had 24,718 applicants for 3,700 positions? You can bet the residents of the Gulf Coast, Davenport, Iowa and other regions hit by national disaster wish there were more AmeriCorps members to fill the gaps left by the private sector, and FEMA, in response to natural disasters. However, the crux of Robinson’s argument seems to be that the purpose...