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...leak out. Lapindo's engineers responded by pumping heavy drilling mud into the well to seal the cracks and restore pressure. Then they began to pull out the drill. Davies thinks that while they were removing the drill on the morning of May 28, they set off a massive "kick," in which high-pressure water and gas from the surrounding rock flowed into, rather than out of, the borehole. To prevent a potentially dangerous blowout, the drillers shut vents at the surface, effectively corking the pressure inside the well. But it was too late. Water from a pressurized aquifer thousands...
...Richard Swarbrick, a British expert on geological pressure and a consultant to oil companies. Usually, when drilling in geologically unstable areas, engineers install steel casing at greater depths, where the low density of the rock might allow fluid to escape from the borehole. In the event of a kick, the casing allows drillers to maintain the integrity of the well. Swarbrick, who has reviewed Lapindo's drilling plan, says the company originally intended to install casing at depths...
...been in some of the tough losses we’ve had, and then being down 12, and just digging in.”Down eight, junior guard Drew Housman found captain Brad Unger in the post. Unger scored a right-handed hook in the lane to kick off the run with 2:21 to play. “More than anything it was do or die at that point,” Unger said. “You can’t get down by too many against Princeton—six or eight points against Princeton...
...lobby Congress, work on getting votes for legislative decisions, but we rarely take to the streets to convince people of our rights.” He asked, “Why haven’t activists staged sit-ins at military recruitment centers, which immediately kick people out if they declare their homosexuality?” I don’t have any good answer for him, but if recent American history is any indication, actions like these will be crucial in shifting the country’s landscape of acceptance...
...hold their own—even in pointe shoes. Cranko’s ballet, which premiered in 1962 with the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany, begins on the streets of Verona, where Romeo (Nelson Madrigal) pines over Rosalind as his cousins bite their thumbs—or, rather, kick their legs—at the Capulets. The set transforms to reveal the interior of a ballroom, where Romeo and Juliet (Larissa Ponomarenko) first meet. Sadly, the precious moment in the text where Romeo absolves his sins on Juliet’s lips, then kisses her again to retrieve them, is sacrificed...