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After several near misses, crude-oil prices briefly hit $100 a bbl. on the first day of trading in 2008. The doubling of crude prices over the past year hasn't been fully felt at the pump, but it will be if prices stay high. What's driving the increase...
...well-meaning white folks want him to take them into Burma (unintentionally topical, no?) for humanitarian work. I guess things go awry, because pretty soon, we’ve got Sly narrating his own voiceover while huge, “2 Fast 2 Furious”-style drum machines pump us up. Dancing. Killing. Knifing. Explosions. Cobras. Running. Crescendos. Finally, Rambo’s talking to himself: “Live for nothing, or die for something.” He fires an arrow that somehow blows a building up. “Your call...
...playing? Letting in layups left and right. One more for the Crimson, 31.37. Pusar stepping it up for the Crimson, makes driving layup on other end. 33-37. 2:45 Housman comes back and drops open layup on next possession. 2:30 to play, 35-37. 2:15 Strong pump fakes Housman out of his shoes. Makes step-back three. He has almost 20 for the Terriers with 2:00 to play in first half. The Crimson don't have an answer. Pusar and Housman are working the one-two on the other end and trying to keep the Crimson...
Amadei soon returned to San Pablo with a team of energetic young engineering students. By adapting centuries-old technology, they designed a pump that could supply water to the community without using electricity. That simple solution--which cost just $14,000, including airfare for 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...
Then there's the gloomy view. In his 2005 book Twilight in the Desert, energy-industry investment banker Matt Simmons opened up a still raging debate over whether Saudi Arabia, OPEC's top producer, really can pump much more oil than it does now. Since the book appeared, Saudi output has dropped from 9.6 million bbl. a day to 8.6 million, despite rising prices...