Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much for the U.N.-imposed economic sanctions that were intended to force the Serbs to end their belligerent ways. Bulgarian officials estimate that 100,000 tons of crude oil and gasoline have passed into Serbia by rail alone since the embargo was imposed on May 31. Add to that heavy truck traffic and considerable small-time smuggling, and it becomes clear that the ban is not working very well. "We are following the sanctions to the letter," says customs official Christo Christov at Kalotina, "but considering the amount of traffic through here, the Serbs are going to get through...
...instruments, acidity meter and other tools they lug along the way. Led by geologists Art and Peg Palmer, these scientific adventurers are trying to determine what the evolution of the cavern can tell them about prehistoric climates, the ecological health of the surrounding region -- even the likelihood of finding oil in limestone deposits around the world...
...piecing together the sulfurous origins of Carlsbad and other caves, speleologists have done more than satisfy scientific curiosity. They have also laid the foundation for some promising new ideas in oil exploration. Hydrogen sulfide, which is sometimes emitted as buried organic material decomposes, often appears in petroleum fields. Core samples of rock produced during drilling suggest that some oil and gas deposits are trapped within ancient cave systems that formed hundreds of millions of years ago. "So, about five years ago, some of us started looking in modern caves to see what they could tell us about where to hunt...
...From the depths of caves come lessons on ecology and oil...
Krug, a former oil-company foreman, was one of more than 300 people killed since 1973 in collisions involving burning gas tanks in GM pickups, according to the Center for Auto Safety. While the company denies that the trucks are prone to catch fire and accuses plaintiffs' lawyers of sensationalizing the accidents, GM documents released last week suggest that the automaker recognized as long ago as 1983 that the fuel tanks could be made much less vulnerable to side-impact collisions. GM has already been hit with more than 100 product-liability lawsuits in connection with the gas tanks...