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...Amadei and his students--transformed the lives of the villagers and that of Amadei, who realized he had found his calling as an engineer and an educator. "I could see the kids were really interested," he says. "And I could see the huge social impact that a small project can have...
...agree on, it's the need for change. The banlieues need jobs, and Sarkozy needs the threat of violence to subside once and for all. He can start with concrete measures such as reintroducing community policing and ramping up eduction initiatives. Talk alone won't work in the banlieues. "Project residents aren't impressed with Sarkozy's flash and flair and won't confuse it with hard, lasting results," warns political analyst Dominique Reynié. "He's in for a long, hard slog--or more rioting if nothing changes...
...question is, Does he really want to? Last year the government announced a $280 million plan to upgrade Paraguaná and increase its capacity to process Venezuela's abundant heavy crude from 50,000 bbl. to 130,000 bbl. per day. But workers say they have yet to see the project move ahead, and some complain the refineries are underperforming. "It's precarious," says a veteran supervisor. "The plant isn't living up to its original design because [PDVSA doesn't] want to cover the costs...
Then, to complicate matters, Chávez mandated this year that the state own a majority stake in heavy-oil developments. Two major investors, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, walked away, taking critical technology with them. Abandoning its Petrozuata and Hamaca heavy-oil ventures, plus an offshore project, cost Conoco $4.5 billion in impairment charges. The French oil corporation Total signed a deal earlier this month to help fill the void. Still, Venezuela's output "is declining," says Rafael Quiroz, an oil economist at Venezuela's Central University. "If it dips below 2.1 m.b.d. ... it could bankrupt the industry...
...These days, hurricanes are studied in exacting detail, but scientists used to describe the storms in one of two ways: major or minor. In 1969, South Florida structural engineer Herbert Saffir came up with the idea of a five-category scale as part of a project commissioned by the United Nations. Later expanded by National Hurricane Center director Robert Simpson--and dubbed the Saffir-Simpson scale--it is now the standard guide to a hurricane's expected impact. Saffir...