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...Houck was ousted from his Missouri River bottomland to make way for the Oahe reservoir. He moved to the plains northwest of Fort Pierre, S. Dak., and put his purebred cattle on grass. They were devastated in the 1966 blizzard, and so Houck decided to experiment with buffalo. Today he has 3,000 head that seem to thrive in the cold and the heat. Houck slaughters a thousand bison a year and sells all the meat he can produce. Bill Mathers doubts he will ever switch to bison. But as he stands on Horse Creek Butte and looks...
...challenge. In the early years, Abdul Aziz struggled to hold together a scattered and widely disparate population of tribes. But he and his successors -- sons Saud, Faisal, Khalid and now Fahd -- were greatly aided in their task by the lucky presence beneath their feet of the world's largest reservoir of oil. The revenues from black crude -- which reached a high of $113 billion in 1981 and this year are expected to top $60 billion -- have enabled the House of Saud to create a modern state almost overnight and, in the process, buy the continued fealty of its subjects. First...
...size of the oil deposit, however, is a mystery. The Interior Department's estimate ranges from 600 million bbl. of crude to as much as 9.2 billion bbl. At the high end, the oil reservoir would be roughly equal to Alaska's enormous Prudhoe Bay field, or more than the U.S. uses in a year. The Interior Department puts the odds of finding a commercially exploitable oil field in the refuge at 1 in 5, vs. the industry's typical success rate...
...report also carried a pledge by Japan to spend $2.77 trillion over the next 10 years on public works projects to stimulate demand for imports and help offset this nation's huge reservoir of savings. Japan has spent $1.7 trillion in the past 10 years...
...riding along in her father's Volkswagen van. As she now remembers that day, they stopped and offered a ride to Susan Nason, who lived five houses away. The two girls piled into the back to bounce on the mattress until her father pulled off the road near the reservoir and joined them. Eileen got into the front passenger seat; when she looked back she saw her father holding Susan's hands above her head, "on top of her, her legs spread apart . . . with pelvis against pelvis . . . and Susan saying, 'Stop...