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...state-run British National Oil Corp. was convinced that there is a huge lode of oil in the Shetlands area, but agreed with other petroleum experts that it would take several years to develop the technology to exploit it. Reason: initial samples show it to be much heavier and more viscous than North Sea oil, and therefore more expensive to raise and refine...
...back in the late '40s, with its relaxed delivery and complex harmonies, also fashioned the first fusion in 1970 with his revolutionary Bitches Brew album. It retained jazz soloing but incorporated electric bass and guitar and a Rhodes electric piano. The result sounded mellow, upbeat and had a heavier rhythm than jazz, and it proved a phenomenal bestseller (600,000, compared with sales of 25,000-30,000 for a popular, mainstream jazz album...
...Northern attitude is myopically stingy. Almost every industrial nation is caught in an economic bind. Unemployment is unacceptably high, yet efforts to bring it down by stimulating the domestic economy through tax cuts and heavier government spending might pump up already high inflation. Selling more goods to other industrial nations is no answer, either. It leads to furious charges that the exporting country is destroying jobs in the importing nation; witness the anger in the U.S. and Europe against Japan's export prowess...
...thermonuclear devices, or H-bombs, the explosive equivalent of about 1,000 tons of TNT. Unlike the earliest A-bombs, which involved the fission-or splitting-of such radioactive materials as uranium and plutonium, H-bombs work by fusing isotopes of the simplest and lightest element, hydrogen, into slightly heavier atoms of helium, although they still require a small fission "trigger" to reach the sunlike temperatures (tens of millions of degrees) required for fusion...
...Witnesses provided good descriptions of four of the twelve terrorists. One was a youthful man with bushy, modish hair and a mustache; two others, clean-shaven, were described as older and heavier. The fourth was a slim young woman with long brown hair and glasses...