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People aren't crazily buying up gas masks in Marietta; gun sales at Uncle Bob's sporting-goods store have stayed steady. But reasonable people are expanding the list of things that could go wrong in their lives. Two Kuwaiti students from Marietta College's petroleum-engineering department have returned home at their parents' request. Mayor Matthews has gone on the radio to tell people to return to normal. But he also tries to be realistic. "They can fly a plane into the World Trade Center. If they want to poison Marietta's water supply, we're not going...
...little as 10 acres, the limit would allow oil companies to spread out over practically the entire park. Another key number is causing consternation: the Teamsters promised Democrats that 700,000 jobs would be created by the drilling. That figure came from an 11-year-old American Petroleum Institute study. Other economists predict the job growth will be less than a tenth that number...
...jobs, that number comes from an 11-year-old study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute that economists complain wildly inflates the employment potential. "It's just absurd," says Eban Goodstein, an economist at Lewis and Clark College, who predicts the real job growth will be less than one-tenth that number...
...industry is sticking by the figures. "We're confident we can develop the resources that are at ANWR without an impact on the wildlife that lives there," insists Mark Rubin, general manager for exploration and production with the American Petroleum Institute. For his part, Sununu complains that it wouldn't matter what number he had put in his amendment. Drilling opponents "don't support any disturbance of any land for any economic activity related to energy in the 19 million acres of ANWR," he says. "They think that 2,000 acres is too much. They think 200 acres...
...locate chemical warehouses, junkyards and gas stations. Engineers walked the property with equipment that detected heavy-metal deposits, then bored some 600 holes and collected more than 5,000 soil and water samples. A color-coded map showed the worst problems: pink for lead and arsenic, green for petroleum and purple for benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogenic by-product of garbage incineration...