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...decade, worldwide demand for oil could top supply by as much as nine million barrels per day, the IEA report concludes. It is not difficult to imagine the resulting escalation of international tension as countries scramble to obtain their energy needs. Nor is it hard to foresee the internal chaos another oil shortage will wreak on an unprepared nation. Soon the energy scare of the ‘70s may seem a mild prologue to the real crisis...
...biggest thing I remember is the sudden release of billions of dollars from the federal government,” said Davis, whose job was to obtain time-keeping devices...
Horowitz’s research began in the late 70s, when Frank Drake, the founder of modern SETI, helped Horowitz obtain funding to do SETI research in Puerto Rico. Not long after, Horowitz went to the West Coast, partially at the behest of NASA, and developed his own project: Suitcase SETI...
...about $700 a term added on top of the student health fee which supports University Health Services (UHS)—goes to funding abortions and that their opting out will make a difference or somehow reduce the ability of individuals on BCBS plans to obtain an abortion. That is hardly the case. The refund amounts to just a dollar per term. HRL says it has collected over 400 waivers this year, up from 128 last year. That $300 a term is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall pool of money flowing into Harvard-affiliated BCBS plans...
...such arguments: 1. What gays really want is a wholly new right, the right to "gay marriage." The court answered by citing Perez v. Sharp, its own 1948 decision legalizing interracial marriage: "The court did not characterize the constitutional right that the plaintiffs in that case sought to obtain as 'a right to interracial marriage,' and did not dismiss the plaintiffs' constitutional challenge on the ground that such marriages never had been permitted in California. Instead, the Perez decision focused on... the importance to an individual of the freedom to join in marriage with the person of one's choice...