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Forget that it looks like coal. And will burn like coal. It's now called "synthetic fuel." As such, the coal-like product, along with roughly 50 million tons of similar stuff from more than 50 similar plants in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and other states, is worth more than $1 billion a year in federal income-tax credits, a corporate giveaway protected by a bipartisan group of supporters in Congress. Those who have profited from the system range from fast-buck artists to giant corporations. They include one of the nation's largest hotel operators, a commodities trader barred...
Before you conclude that the moral of this story is that Canada is just lucky to have the stuff, read on. For the U.S. has vast quantities of a similar deposit called oil shale, a claylike rock soaked through with fossil fuel. In fact, at least 1 trillion bbl. of it, or four times Saudi Arabia's oil reserves, is locked up in the mountains 200 miles west of Denver. The U.S. spent billions of dollars to figure out a way to mine the stuff, then gave up and walked away. Why Canada has succeeded at creating a homemade source...
...letter. "The day he gets it, he calls, and he says, 'Course I knew you were gay, but I wasn't sure how to bring it up,'" recalls Francis, 52. "'And I want you to know we are better friends than ever, even though there's going to be stuff we disagree...
...airbrushing of his eyes on the Measure of a Man album cover--because he believes that the label is clueless about how to market to an audience he knows instinctively. "I'm a battle picker," he says. "I try not to get upset about all this marketing stuff because I'm saving it for the time that they tell me that I need to do a song about 'Let's hook up and have sex.' But I'm like, 'Do not--ugh!--don't pretend that the public are a bunch of idiots! Don't pretend that you know what...
...They’re obviously leaving a lot of results in trophies, district championships, and stuff like that [behind],” said Groton-Dunstable Athletic Director David Robinson. “But what they left that was more valuable, for kids to see, is that if you work really, really hard at something, its going to pay off. That’s what really sets them apart...