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...great petroleum reserves of Alaska are slowly but inexorably drying up, along with the profits of the oil companies that operate there. Meanwhile, 30-year-old pipelines that stretch like a giant cobweb over the oil fields of the North Slope, a flat expanse between the majestic Brooks Range mountains and the Arctic shore, need more and costlier maintenance than ever. The new spill puts into sharp relief the same question that has stalemated the ANWR debate since the 1980s: Can oil companies focused on their bottom line be trusted to protect Alaska's fragile environment...
Harvard has scored 24 goals and allowed only seven in the trio of postseason victories that led to Saturday night’s Whitelaw Trophy celebration. During that stretch, the Crimson went 10-for-22 on the power play and allowed two goals in 18 chances...
...Moussaoui had come clean with FBI agents interrogating him before 9/11, airport security could have been beefed up to foil the hijackers. In other words, they are claiming that he should be put to death because of his inactions rather than his actions. "It?s enough of a stretch to get juries to convict people who drive getaway cars in a murder of conspiracy," says one government security lawyer not involved in the case. "But these prosecutors think Moussaoui should be put to death for not revealing a plan he never took part...
...They?re afraid that a tough measure [will provoke] Iran into an irrational reaction" that would spur the West to demand global economic sanctions," says the U.S. official. The Russians, he says, "are not ready for sanctions. They want to buy time, stretch the process out." But no one is making it easy on them. In addition to Rice's entreaty, U.S. Ambassasdor to Russia William Burns paid a call Tuesday on Lavrov, and, according to the Interfax News Agency, French foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy also telephoned...
...most of the wreckage appeared to be in the surrounding neighborhoods and business districts. On one block, part of a house had crashed down on a truck. On another, the trees on either side had collapsed into the middle, creating an impassible stretch. Power cables dangled and stretched across streets like clotheslines. A local bar owned by the brother of Springfield's mayor was turned into a convertible, its roof swept away, but beer signs still hung on walls that remained standing-a telling sign of nature's seeming illogic...