Word: slopes
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...animals to pass beneath. A truck leaking a pint of transmission fluid is treated as an oil spill, reported as such and laboriously cleaned up. Even so, there are limits. "Drilling for oil is an industrial process," concedes Ronnie Chappell, the main spokesman for BP Amoco on the North Slope. "Some things you can't get rid of--like pipelines." The oil industry by its very nature is rugged and intrusive...
...pockets. These are the toughest jobs in the industry. The 94-man crew works and lives out of a mobile camp: 30 bright-orange mobile homes on steel skis, linked together in six trains. In a season they will cover 400 square miles. The men travel the North Slope in Sno-Cats with rubber tracks to minimize damage to the tundra. "We always used to be cautious, but now we are walking on eggshells," says Kurt Kinder, the Phillips Petroleum rep on the seismic team. But the tundra, like eggshells, is fragile, and once broken cannot be repaired...
...slippery slope of course soon led straight to hell, and I knew I hit bottom last weekend when I for the first time downloaded an entire album, "Penthouse," by Luna. It was then (although maybe it was because my neighbor saw me listening to that godawful "Bonnie and Clyde" song) that I knew I had a moral problem...
...course the power players gathered at Davos aren't exactly paying attention to the proceedings at Porto Alegre. So if you want to make your voice heard on the ski slopes of power, your best bet may be hellomrpresident.com, an independent Swiss media project that will project your e-mail message of no more than 160 characters onto a ski slope that looms over the town, meaning Messrs. Gates and Soros couldn't possibly miss it. Use the language of your choice, just don't cuss or advertise. Cute quote of Day 1: "Don't produce, reduce...
...that has kept them plugging along through reading period and exam week has been knowing that at the end of it all, they would be hopping on a plane or a bus or a train and hightailing it out of here. Be their destination a tropical island, an alpine slope or just Mom's kitchen, many students have eagerly awaited the chance to break out of the Harvard bubble...