Word: lakes
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Gold has won some important converts to his brazen idea. The Swedish government, with support from the U.S. Gas Research Institute, is expected to invest $14 million to bore 15,000 ft. into the granite bedrock of Lake Siljan in central Sweden, in the hope of finding vast stores of natural gas. Reason: the lake was formed when a meteor slammed to the earth 360 million years ago, possibly fracturing the bedrock and allowing gas to percolate upward. Says William Staats, director of basic research at the Gas Research Institute in Chicago: "We believe that there is enough at stake...
...constituent compounds. That organic material then collects in sedimentary layers in the sea and is buried progressively deeper. After millions of years, pressure and temperature convert the debris into fossil fuels. Yet little hard evidence supports this conventional wisdom. Declares Tore Lindbo, Swedish Power Board coordinator of the Lake Siljan project: "It is simply a theory that is generally accepted...
...significance, and we hear words to the effect that it is going to be an introductory meeting, only an agenda for the future, things to that effect. Well, we believe that to travel all the way to Geneva just to get acquainted, just to look at the beauties of Lake Geneva, the beauty of Swiss mountains, that is not adequate to the leaders of two such great nations. It is an expensive luxury. We will do all in our power to make the summit meeting instrumental in improving relations between the Soviet Union...
...LAKE WOBEGON DAYS, Keillor...
...passed through a series of British internment camps. The artworks and documents he left behind in Hanover were destroyed in an air raid. He suffered from epilepsy and strokes. His wife died of cancer. To support himself he had to do tourist views and kitsch portraits in the Lake District village where, at 60, he died. But he never stopped working, and what a friend called the distinctive "Schwitters aroma"--an amalgam of glue, flour paste and guinea pigs, the portable pets of his exile--followed him to the end of his days...