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Wimbledon, July 7: Scores seat in royal box alongside Margaret Thatcher. Gives the BBC a rain-delay interview in which he opines that Venus Williams "is like a gazelle...
Today semis are thundering along new dirt roads, heavy bulldozers are digging trenches for pipelines, overhead power lines are crisscrossing the valley, and drilling rigs are going up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Dube's spread is just another block on a gas company's exploration map as the Powder River basin becomes the center of a sudden boom in natural-gas drilling, one driven by rising prices, new extraction techniques and a recent federal decision to put 2,500 new wells on public land...
...there's one thing wood knows how to do, it's rot. Expose lumber to the elements, and within as few as five years, sun, rain, termites and fungus can reduce it to pulp. That's why builders were so enthusiastic in the 1970s when the lumber industry introduced pressure-treated boards--ordinary planks and posts injected with an extraordinary preservative known as CCA that can extend the life of wood fivefold, eliminating repairs and saving millions of trees annually. What got less attention at the time is the fact that CCA stands for chromated copper arsenate--a form...
...will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by the Beta Band," announces John Cusack as the world-weary record store owner Rob in 'High Fidelity'. After he throws on the album's first track, "Dry the Rain," his face droops into an abstracted, too-cool-for-words expression and his head begins to nod appreciatively to the stately beat; soon the heads of self-conscious twenty something males all across his store do the same...
...temperatures have been moderate—that is, in the 80s—and last week’s rare July rain cooled things down in Southern California and kept energy-sucking air-conditioners...