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...talking about migrant farm workers or roustabouts following the latest oil gusher," says University of Southern California geographer Thomas Jablonsky. "These are people with degrees, in their 30s or 40s, with some money and property, in midcareer with professional ambitions -- the very people who would have flocked to L.A. in the past." With them the state loses the economic value of their skills and the social value of their activism in the communities where they would be raising families. "They will be missed, absolutely," Jablonsky adds. "Southern California seems to be losing some of the leading talent of the 21st...
TELEVISION The Prize is a gusher of oil lore...
Only in the end, a mushy account of the environmental movement's challenge to oil's dominance, does the series falter. Most of the time, The Prize is a gusher of brisk and illuminating history...
Well, sort of. At first it all seemed like a joke. The band members, with names like Oderus Urungus, Techno Destructo, Jizmach the Gusher and Slymenstra Hymen (the group's long female) romped around the stage to a thrashing beat, spitting on, stabbing and biting each other. They employed all their art school know-how to create disgustingly vivid stage scenes of cartoonish mayhem...
...1980s, when energy-production jobs plunged more than one-third. But in fact the situation today is worse. While many parts of the U.S. economy are struggling through the recession, few are as hard hit as energy. By every measure, these are among the toughest times since that first gusher at Spindletop in 1901 -- more akin to the Great Depression than the cyclical booms-and-busts since...