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...side of the road, hidden below a field of snow, a massive slick of crude oil had spread over nearly two acres of tundra. An aging pipe, installed during the Ford Administration, had corroded from the inside and oozed oil out of an almond-size hole--a leak that went undetected for at least five days. None of the pipeline's alarms were tripped. In all, 201,000 gal. of crude escaped, making the spill the largest ever to hit Alaska's North Slope...
...banes of the road warrior's life. No longer. The hotel industry's burgeoning emphasis on design includes airport properties, many of which are starting to boast the upgraded amenities and modish trappings of their downtown cousins. Say goodbye to poky rooms and drab lobbies, and luxuriate in slick digs like the striking Kempinski Hotel Airport M?nchen, tel: (49-89) 97820, pictured above. Below are some of our other layover favorites...
...coming to help manage the news torrent. We will need tools that combine machine and human intelligence, reputation, and popularity.Readers and viewers will also need to bring a more sophisticated approach to interpreting media reports and news sources. When any website can be made to look as slick as any other, and rumors race around the net at the speed of light while truth trails in a sometimes futile chase, the reader (or viewer or listener) has to be more skeptical at the outset. Although it seems that younger people are better at this online scrutiny than their elders?...
...banes of the road warrior's life. No longer. The hotel industry's burgeoning emphasis on design includes airport properties, many of which are starting to boast the upgraded amenities and modish trappings of their downtown cousins. Say goodbye to poky rooms and drab lobbies, and luxuriate in slick digs like the striking Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich, tel: (49-89) 97820, pictured above. Below are some of our other layover favorites...
...just like, man, I was too scared to even go down and play,” Brown says.Eventually, Brown tried out—and caught the eye of Walsh. He had never had a power bat, but his slick glove at short impressed the coaches, despite a surplus of young middle infielders on the roster.“You know,” Walsh says, “the interesting thing was every day you’d be coming in to the office after the fall practice and you’d be going...