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...demand is going to start outrunning supply sometime between 2015 and 2025, according a range of estimates from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation, meaning that prices are likely to skyrocket as third world development puts demand pressure on production capacity. The likelihood of finding more oil is extremely low at this point. In the 70s fuel reserves were underestimated due because they did not take into account the technological progress that would make untapped, although previously known, oil reserves financially viable...
...adjudicate cases. Also, expanding the Single Fact Finder (SFF) system by hiring a professional investigator who will do a full investigation of every peer-to-peer dispute charge will hopefully help the Ad Board process become more streamlined and efficient. A well-trained SFF should also reduce the likelihood that crucial facts will be missed or misinterpreted...
...However, these nations have received no payment on these debts for over ten years and would never have collected a penny if Saddam had remained in charge. In all likelihood they probably already assume that they will never recover more then a fraction of the current debt. Their real game is to ensure the UN as a key player in the reconstruction effort, allowing European countries to get on the gravy train for future reconstruction contracts, particularly for the development of large gas and oil projects. The U.S. Treasury Department still assumes a deal will be brokered...
...coming years. And yet with the equally essential task of reforming Harvard’s undergraduate curriculum ahead of him—the huge job for which he was initially hired—it is hard to imagine that Gross will not have to do just that. In all likelihood, Gross will be forced to delegate responsibilities rather than paying student life the kind of careful, close attention an independent Dean of the College can give...
...scientists race to unravel the mysteries of SARS, one issue high on their agenda will be the likelihood that the new virus is a cross-species transmission in which the virus has mutated from its animal carrier so that it can infect humans, who have no immunity from the alien invader. The most obvious examples of this are HIV and influenza, and the latter disease has disturbing parallels with SARS. The flu virus lives usually in the stomachs of waterfowl, and the two are co-adapted?the birds don't get sick. It is widely believed among virologists, however, that...