Word: oiled
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...Energy's Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development, observes that developing nations gain a double benefit from renewable power because they can manufacture the components of their energy supply system, thus expanding their industrial base. Building solar- and wind- energy equipment and installations creates jobs and reduces oil imports...
Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Massachusetts and author of The Prize, is more cautious about forecasting the coming solar era; he has watched market pressures obliterate past predictions about the future of energy. He also notes that oil and coal companies are not standing idle but are vigorously trying to lower costs and provide cleaner- burning fuels. "The critical question," Yergin contends, "is whether any innovation meets the test of the marketplace." Older and perhaps wiser than they were in the 1970s, the apostles of renewable energy claim they are now poised to meet that test...
...fifth period"). She went on to get a journalism degree at the University of Texas in Austin, then worked for two years on the San Antonio Light. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1981, she joined the Los Angeles Times, for which she covered everything from the oil industry to the Iran-contra affair to Bob Kerrey's 1992 campaign for the presidency. She interrupted her campaign stint to have Nicholas, now 2, with husband Paul Richter, a White House correspondent for the Los Angeles Times...
...Halloween at the Mutter every day. The first-time visitor is confronted by macabre marvels: monstrously misshapen skulls and skeletons, fetal remains of offspring that could never be human, shadowy effigies of things that went bump in the night. The Mutter's polished wood, gleaming brass rails and dark oil paintings suggest the library of a wealthy if eccentric 19th century aristocrat. But when professor Thomas Dent Mutter bequeathed his collection to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1856, he intended it as a teaching aid, a guide to the eccentricities -- however terrifying -- of the human body. "This...
Here the up-front American blandishments are staggering. North Korea gets: 1) a free supply of oil, 500,000 metric tons a year, for the next eight to 10 years; 2) construction of two shiny new nuclear reactors worth $4 billion, also free; 3) diplomatic ties with the U.S., which will immediately lead to 4) diplomatic ties with Japan, from which will flow 5) aid and trade and whatever else the North Korean regime needs to keep going -- and keep threatening South Korea...