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...also need to pull out all the stops to find new oil supplies. Actions like drilling in the controversial Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and exploring for more oil and natural gas on the outer continental shelf of North America suddenly take on a sense of urgency. They would not cure the problem but could buy time to offset shrinking supply...
...watch" some 40,000 points in the subjects' brains over time, and to figure out which specific regions of the brain developed, or thickened, at different rates. On average, in children with ADHD, the age at which 50% of the 40,000 points on the cortex - the brain's outer mantle - achieved peak thickness was 10 1/2, three years behind the typically developing kids whose cortex matured at age 7 1/2. The lag was most obvious in the prefrontal cortex, the study found, the area of the brain critical to cognitive functions like memory, attention focusing, higher-order motor control...
...wouldn't know it, but billions of comets are lurking right now at the outer edges of the Solar System waiting for their big moment onstage. Most will never get the chance: They're destined to orbit endlessly in the deep freeze of outer space - lonely chunks of dirty ice that will always be far too small to be seen, even with a powerful telescope...
...country's aging infrastructure--many pipelines were installed with more primitive cathodic protection a half-century ago. These older pipelines need to be checked for corrosion on a regular basis. And compliance doesn't come cheap. Schutt says installing cathodic protection on a new pipeline with a fresh protective outer coating may require an anode installation every 20 miles, at a cost of about $1,000 a mile. However, an older pipeline whose coating has worn away might require a more drastic approach--a continuous anode running parallel to the pipeline, which could cost as much...
...Until a few years ago... when under new management, a Jewish owner from Brooklyn, a Latino general manager from Queens, an African-American manager from Brooklyn-ethnic New York guys, outer-borough guys like me-the Mets began to hire some wonderful talent, and a sizzling crop of younger players suddenly materialized from the farm system. I found myself sucked into baseball fandom of the purest, most banal sort. I learned to love winning. I even expected them to win. Our playoff loss in 2006 to the St. Louis Cardinals was a fluke. Surely we would win this year...