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...Berri fields (which still make up about 90% of Saudi Arabia's light crude) now pump oil from water-injection wells--essentially the low-hanging fruit. Once that ends, oil production in those key fields will decline, and the declines could be steep. The two other giant fields producing lesser-quality oil are subject to this same risk. Quantifying the timing and the magnitude of the pending drop is impossible based on the skimpy data Saudi Arabia now discloses. But the risk is real, and the drop could happen soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Real Oil Shock | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...should be over. But despite the dignity and moderation of Aboriginal leaders, and the goodwill of so many whites, it is manifestly not over. Finishing it off, at last, is work that will take us into the millennium. But it has to be done, or we are a much lesser nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Australia | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

Clinton's strategists have argued that the other Democrats benefit from the fact that they are not as famous as she is and have not been subjected to 15 years of demonization by the Republicans. They add that any of Clinton's lesser-known rivals would see his negatives quickly rise should he get the nomination and be thrown into what is certain to be a brutal general election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary Clinton: The Lightning Rod | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...just another guy in need of grooming. And it's a common-man experience whose relaxed intimacy most of them seem to relish. "They come in and gossip and joke around," says the 61-year-old Rodr?guez, as he deftly moves a straight blade around the ears of a lesser-known patron. "The politicians want to know what other people say about them, and what they say about others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaving the Heads of State | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...instead of TAs, and “final clubs” instead of the much more universally recognized “frats.” What else is there to know, right? Wrong. FM digs into Harvard’s Archives to pull up some of the lesser-known Harvard slang. Take a look: 1) LoHo – Lowell House 2) Clubbie – a member of a final club 3) River Rat – one who lives in a River House 4) The Dump – Dunster House 5) A Poonster...

Author: By Frances Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 SLANG WORDS | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

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