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...Alaskan LNG plant is owned by Marathon Oil and ConocoPhillips, which asked the Department of Energy in 2007 for permission to export about 100 billion cubic feet of gas to Asia over two years from the roughly 300 billion cubic feet of gas that is likely to be produced. The overseas connection not only provides an outlet for fuel produced beyond the limited needs of Alaska, it is highly profitable - LNG prices in the Pacific rim can run twice as high as those...
...That same year, Game 6 between the Mets and Astros stopped rush hour cold in New York City. People crowded around Walkmen and windows to catch the conclusion of the 16-inning marathon, which the New York finally won, 7-6. (Unlike the World Series, which have all been played at night since 1987, the Championship Series still offers a taste of post-season baseball during the day - although this year there will be only two late afternoon starts for the ALCS, and one for the NLCS.) While traveling back to New York, the Mets commemorated their National League title...
...start. After scuttling the first proposed deal last week at a contentious White House meeting, saying they simply didn't have the votes, House Republican leaders forced a renegotiation of the bill, moving it further to the right to make it more palatable to their members. Then, after marathon talks over the weekend, an agreement was struck in the wee hours of Sunday morning, and the GOP House leadership quickly got behind the deal. "We are supporting this bill," House minority leader John Boehner told reporters Sunday night, adding that he was asking members to vote for the measure...
...10.Despite the results, many of the Harvard players feel the team should not be counted out.“[These schools] are our big rivals, and we’re going to have to beat them,” Connolly said. “It’s a marathon to get to Easterns, and the silver lining is that we’re not out of shape.”BROWN 14, HARVARD 6The Bears (2-5) jumped out in front early, posting a 4-0 advantage in the first quarter. Two 6-on-5 goals and a converted...
David Foster Wallace was young enough when he published his first novel, The Broom of the System, in 1987, that critics who read his witty marathon sentences and then flipped to the author photo of a young man willing himself to look older - like every fake I.D. picture ever taken - were powerless: they had to dub him the next literary voice of his generation. It's exactly the kind of over-enthusiastic cliché Wallace was so good at examining and twisting and footnoting into an ironic tangent, and it was that distrust for pat declarations and easy praise that...