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...after the first long-distance pipelines were laid in the Northeast in the late 1870s and early 1880s, the first oil tankers were allowed to pass through the Suez Canal, and the modern shipping system was born. Today crude oil travels in tankers that can carry up to 4 million bbl. With daily world demand at about 85 million bbl., petroleum represents about a third of all international cargo. And even though the commodity is also measured in kiloliters (in Japan) and metric tons (in Russia), thanks to whiskey, the units are always converted to the 42-gal. barrel...
...Still, the decision to approve the fill and finish steps underscores how unusual H1N1 is, and highlights the fact that the upcoming flu season may yet hold surprises. In its report, PCAST also released projections of how severe the pandemic could get: up to 120 million people coughing, sneezing, feverish and otherwise sick with the symptoms of flu, 90,000 people potentially dead from the illness, and half to 100% of beds in intensive care units of hospitals in hard-hit regions filled with flu patients...
...uncovered FBI documents showing four convicted murderers had been framed by agents in the 1960s. Two of the men were released, and later won a $100 million civil judgment against the government. The other two had died in prison...
...publisher has high hopes for the 532-page tome, with a 1.5 million-copy first printing in the works. And banking on the international appeal of the Kennedy name and legacy, Twelve will publish the book in numerous countries, including the U.K., France and Italy. Twelve is profoundly guarded about the details of the embargoed book, as it angles for a huge best seller. But it does allow that, for ardent fans, a signed, leather-bound, limited-edition copy of the book can be preordered on the publisher's website...
...ancient civilization with a rich and diverse heritage, India remains uncomfortable with the defining event of its modern political history - the cataclysmic Partition of 1947 that left a million people dead in fratricidal massacres and caused the largest-ever cross-migration in human history. Six decades after that bloody split which doomed India to seemingly eternal enmity with its conjoined twin, the state of Pakistan, Partition still defines the contours of Indian politics and some of its biggest challenges, from the festering dispute in Kashmir to Islamist and Hindu right-wing terrorism...