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...faces both large deficits and the need to take de facto control of parts of the credit, financial, and industrial sectors. In effect, the amount of the nation's economic activity controlled by the government will rise to a level which would have been unimaginable even months...
...ages of 50 and 74, and half were aged 25 to 35. The participants were given either alcoholic drinks - roughly equivalent to a couple of glasses of wine - or placebo beverages, then asked to perform tasks designed to test their motor skills. They were also asked to rate their level of intoxication on a scale of 1 to 10. While the older people were more impaired by the alcohol, they also consistently underestimated their drunkenness. That may be because over the years, people become inured to the effects of social drinking, says Dr. Sara Jo Nixon, the senior researcher...
Then there's oil. In 2007 and '08, state-controlled Petrobras discovered up to 12 billion bbl. beneath the Atlantic floor about 155 miles (250 km) off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The oil lies almost 3 miles (5 km) below sea level and is covered by a thick layer of salt, so extraction will be a massive undertaking. And while the discovery promised a windfall when oil was $140 per bbl., at today's price of $40, profitability will be a challenge. Nor is oil always the blessing that it appears; in nations from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia...
...wide interpretative understanding of the film. The men of the village—whose fathers were brave warriors and died to construct the water pipeline—embody the decline of their civilization; they are too useless to carry out even simple jobs. On a less serious level, Helmer playfully captures the pitfalls of adolescence and sexual awakening. In the end, he creates a fairy tale for adults—full of sexual innuendo, aesthetic innovation, and a landscape removed from time and reality...
...think he’s going to have a big season for us—and we need him to,” Walsh says. “I think he’s going to be a kid who will have a chance to play at the next level...