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Year the Internet could slow to a global crawl because of a surge in video overloading its current capacity...
...more than 200 billion bbl. in the Orinoco Belt, which, if true, is nearly 10 times as many proven reserves as the U.S. has. But most of the stuff is extra-heavy crude. Tapping and processing that tarlike oil require billions in investment. Analysts say PDVSA has been slow to start those projects, including joint stakes with China's CNPC, Brazil's Petrobras and Iran's Petropars in southeastern Venezuela...
...expansive portfolio, but Prawoto isn't aiming for one. He favors a slow, deliberate approach, taking up to a year to understand a client's requirements and produce appropriate designs. "I consider myself a midwife giving birth to homes that look like their parents," he says. "Too many architects are obsessed with showing themselves, whereas I want to show who and what is living there." And if the original occupants include trees, so be it. At a Prawoto house, they are often left standing, their branches stretching through holes cut in the roof...
...does the heart/ learn that it has not already understood/ about regret? When all light finally/ forsakes a room, do we take the time/ to interrogate the dark, and to what end?" Other poems simmer with sexual energy; an aircraft landing on the tarmac becomes heady foreplay with the "slow lick of its wheels/ against the runway's/ belly...
...Amaker said. “Putting hands in the face, being active, chasing long rebounds, hopefully we can be up for that kind of effort.” In addition to McGeary, Harvard will need strong efforts from starting guards junior Drew Housman and sophomore Jeremy Lin to slow down Gilchrese and Gibbs. Lin had a memorable performance the last time the two teams met. With the game tied at 81-81 in the final minute of overtime in Durham, he stole a Wildcats inbounds pass, then drove for a lay-up with 23.8 seconds left to secure...