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...late 1970s - just before the price of oil dropped, and stayed low for nearly a decade. With oil languishing at around $15 per bbl., few oil companies had the appetite to lay out huge capital expenditure on refineries, which traditionally yield low profits. Then there was the dizzying mix of regulatory conditions placed on refining both in the U.S. and Europe; in one of America's many energy quirks, gasoline refined in 49 states can't be sold in California because it doesn't meet that state's more rigorous environmental standards. Such restrictions, however sensible, meant different refineries couldn...
...anger raise suspicions. "Hey, flex-cuff 'em," orders a Green Beret. Chemical swabs read positive for explosives on two of the men. Masked informants identify three--all brothers--as snipers, the other two as a rocket-propelled-grenade team. Across the battlefield, insurgents attempting to slip out of Sarai mix with civilians. Five dressed as women are snared, one with fake breasts. Others force children to hold their hands as though they are family. Some are caught; others are not. An intelligence officer says al-Qaeda is slipping to the east and behind them to the south, and "somehow...
...balance a defense looking for 10 shutouts this season, the offensive burden will fall squarely on the shoulders of a mix of experienced returning players and rotating freshman...
...senior wide receiver out of Indianapolis is back in the offensive mix after being sidelined in 2004 due to academic reasons. With junior Corey Mazza returning at receiver, Harvard’s attack could once again boast a one-two punch reminiscent of the pairing of Byrnes and Carl Morris...
...Leon had every reason to fake his work's pedigree: the Zohar was far too radical to be accepted without a fabricated imprimatur. An utterly original 1,800-page mix of Torah commentary, parody, erotic poetry, numerology and experimental narrative devices, it crams some 400 subplots into a Chaucer-like tale of a band of traveling sages. The book's form alone, says Matt, is "a challenge to the normal workings of consciousness...