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Seeking to boost output, China's oil technocrats now are drilling new onshore wells in the country's northwest regions. But their main hope is to strike rich offshore deposits. In the past few years, China has built or bought ten offshore rigs, including a secondhand North...
...others." Wallraff, who lives with his wife and two daughters in a working-class section of Cologne, admits to leftist sympathies. But he insists that politics do not color his reporting. "I rely on indignation, anger and my own sensitivity," he says. "My tool as a journalist is not secondhand information but what I have experienced...
...skipper, Ted Turner, entered every contest mouth-first. The boat, Courageous, was secondhand. The oddsmakers, having surveyed the competition-two new 12-meter yachts constructed for the 23rd defense of the America's Cup-had consigned the captain and his Courageous to third place. But last week, after two months and two rounds of preliminary races-with a final one beginning Aug. 16 still to go -Turner's tenacity and cunning helmsmanship brought Courageous home to Newport, R.I., leading in the trials to select a boat to represent the U.S. hi the Cup. So far, Turner...
...Bean Blossom, pup tents and trailers were parked at random in the 100-acre park that is owned by Monroe and serves as the festival site. Away from the stage, a concessionaire offered bargain prices on dusty fruit jars, secondhand cookware, some 1950s sheet music and a chipped enamel bedpan. Other vendors sold straw hats, hard-to-get bluegrass records, Martin guitar strings and $1 plates of sausage gravy and biscuits. Red-white-and-blue garbage cans stood under the trees, next to inelegant eight-seater outhouses...
...Republic of Technology is a world of obsolescence. Our characteristic printed matter is not a deathless literary work but today's newspaper that makes yesterday's newspaper worthless. Old objects simply become secondhand-to be ripe for the next season's recycling. In this world the great library is apt to seem not so much a treasurehouse as a cemetery. A Louis Sullivan building is torn down to make way for a parking garage. Progress seems to have become quick, sudden and wholesale...