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...Going with the Flow"] Lusi may, in fact, be unstoppable. In 1979, the oil company Shell set off a similar eruption while drilling off the shore of Brunei. That mudflow took 20 years and 20 relief wells to halt, according to Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Lusi may eventually choke itself as mud clogs its interior plumbing. But if left to die on its own, Davies estimates that it could continue to erupt for years, and perhaps even decades. Hardi Prasetyo, deputy head of the new government team in charge of Lusi, says that...
...Music Begin The swings between humor and pathos ended that evening at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, an ornate, three-tier orchestra hall that had been recently fitted with a new acoustic shell around the stage to make the hall worthy of the New York Philharmonic. Some 1,400 people were present - mostly North Koreans, and a few dozen foreign diplomats and businesspeople. Who the North Koreans were, exactly, was maddeningly vague. Maazel had said before the concert that he hoped "ordinary" Koreans would be among those attending, but no one from the orchestra had a clue who the tickets...
...Martin Shell, Stanford’s vice president for development, attributed the strong fundraising numbers to high levels of participation by Stanford alumni, pointing to nearly 70,000 donors who contributed to Stanford’s current capital campaign...
...believe the depth of this support is because our donors see Stanford as a way to address the root causes of global problems over the long term,” Shell said in a press release. “Our faculty members are conducting groundbreaking research and we are educating students who become leaders in many fields...
...surged into an 18-1 run and a 54-31 lead six minutes into the half.“We made great game adjustments in the second half, so I was pretty pleased how we pulled away,” Delaney-Smith said.In an attempt to salvage pride, a shell-shocked Penn rallied and embarked on a 7-0 run to cut the deficit to 54-38 with 11:58 left on the clock. The comeback was short-lived—Finelli sank a jumper to end a three minute dry spell for Harvard, starting a six point run that...