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Corey M. Rennell ’07 will soon boast more than climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, and surviving anthrax contracted from a sheep as among his feats. Rennell will be one of six participants in an upcoming reality TV show produced by BBC and The Discovery Channel. Rennell said he will receive $10,000 for participating in the program. Rennell was one of over 100 Americans who applied for the show, according to Louisa M. Griffith-Jones, associate producer for the BBC. The program will feature three American and three British male athletes who will spend...
...aboveground on the first derrick erected in Kurdistan in decades - by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things. From the top, there is a panoramic view of the hills around his tiny village of Tawke, where 30 families eke out a meager living herding sheep. It hardly looks like the location for a major economic boom. "We are poor," he says, sitting on his bunk during a break between shifts in January, when Time was invited for a rare visit to the oil operation. "We have nothing." But that could soon change - perhaps dramatically, according...
...help secure the rig's safety from possible attack. Insurgents last year launched more than 200 attacks on Iraq's oil facilities, and have made more than 30 already this year. But Khadir, who earns $500 a month as a oil-rig roughneck - in a village of poor sheep farmers - says an attack against DNO would surely fail. "Everyone in the village would protect the company, even the kids, because this oil is our future," he says. And while DNO waits for the oil to flow, it seems likely that Tawke's children may soon sit in class at desks...
...which investigators hope will lead to further arrests. Two days after Provenzano's capture, the shack where he had slept and worked was sealed off as police conducted forensic studies. But a walk through the adjoining barn and makeshift area for producing cheese offered the sour smell of turned sheep's milk and a scene strewn with strainers, aluminum buckets filled with blocks of Pecorino cheese and a large bag of salt. Hanging on the wall were pictures of the Virgin Mary and the Catholic saint Padre Pio, and four 2006 freebie calendars, none of which had yet been turned...
...Each time you see a symbol of thwarted love (things to look for: fireworks, slaughtered sheep, empty roads...