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...Such a drop, called a loss of circulation, isn't uncommon in gas drilling. It usually means that natural fractures inside the borehole are allowing drilling fluid to 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...
...until 45 minutes after the first rocks began to fly. Yet Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica later declared himself satisfied with the performance of his police force, and Transport Minister Velimir Ilic even remarked that the damage done to the embassies pales next to Serbia's suffering over the loss of Kosovo. Foreign ambassadors, he said, "fared really well, considering what they deserved...
...blasphemous images of the Prophet Muhammed, asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to cut off the country’s access to YouTube. Unfortunately, as the telecommunications companies carried out the government order, technical mistakes deprived would-be YouTube users in various countries access to the site. Viewers bemoaned the loss of their favorite form of procrastination, but they should have been lamenting Pakistan’s far more important loss—that of free speech. The right to free speech is one that the United Nations’ Universal declaration of Human Rights affirms in its nineteenth article?...
...higher. But if the game against Cornell is to mean anything in the Ancient Eight championship race, Harvard must first defeat Columbia. The Lions have lost the last 15 match-ups with the Crimson, its most recent defeat coming earlier this month in the form of a 73-65 loss. When Harvard tips off against Columbia at 7 p.m. tonight at Lavietes Pavilion, they must beware of the Lions’ potential bite.“We’re in a position fighting for first place, and they [Columbia] have nothing to lose,” Delaney-Smith said...
...national renewal, about big ideas like energy independence and a rollback of militarism abroad, they are going to have to be truthful and precise. They haven't been on NAFTA, the relatively peripheral trade deal that both Clinton and Obama-formerly equivocal supporters-have made the symbol for the loss of manufacturing jobs. But shutting off free trade won't heal Ohio. Aggressive government action might. That is real change on the horizon, the real choice this year...