Word: subs
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...world had known about Angola's oil reserves for decades, but war made them hard to reach. Now peace and high prices have made them alluring again. Today Angola is the second-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa, and production is growing 25% a year. Since 2002, businessmen have been flying into Luanda offering huge sums in return for access to oil, while foreign governments have bolstered their case with aid. China has made a habit of outbidding the world here. In 2004, years of talks over structural reforms between Angola and the International Monetary Fund became redundant when...
...Killen. Following a funeral service at the chapel that memorialized her son, Fannie Lee was buried next to James' grave in Meridian, Miss. She was 84. Since 1964, when Alvin--the deep-diving submarine that engineer Harold Froehlich designed--was launched, the vessel, the world's oldest research sub, has become a model for deep-sea exploration. Owned by the Navy and operated out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, Alvin has made more than 4,120 dives to date. Among the most celebrated: recovering a lost hydrogen bomb in the 1960s and leading explorer Robert Ballard...
...open my laptop to do some work on the plane, I wondered that with all of the latest economic indicators being so negative, why are so many families flying, presumably embarking on their summer vacations? In light of skyrocketing gas prices, falling home prices and the looming sub-prime lending collapse, are U.S. consumers still confident in our economy...
...some of the U.S.’s highest-paid security guards (including Stanford’s over $20 an hour starting salary) and asserts that Harvard is paying below the “market rate.” This sample set hardly proves that current wages are sub-standard—after all, many local security guards are paid substantially less than the University’s employees. Another favored tactic has been to frame the hunger strike as the conclusion of an undefined and amorphous, but very, very long struggle. In the words of one supporter, the strike...
...very enlightening to realize that the rest of the world is responsible for an African country's drought and poverty and that in order to prevent another Darfur, we must halt climate change. What an arrogant, ignorant idea. Sub-Saharan Africa has been and will remain a place that will barely eke out life in the best of times and will remain poverty stricken despite the rest of the world's climate policy. I have sympathy for the people of Darfur, but advocating steps to stop global warming is just wishful thinking, and using the people of Darfur to further...