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...territory's GDP today, but big oil could offer a much shorter path to self-reliance. In September, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Denmark's Dong Energy joined the ranks of those who have been looking for oil off Greenland's west coast, and last month the U.S. Geological Survey released an estimate that an area off Greenland's northeast coast could yield the equivalent of 31.4 billion barrels of oil, gas and gas liquids. If those barrels materialize, it would make northeast Greenland the 19th largest oil and gas reserve out of 500 in the world. No one has struck...
...survey by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) found that seniors at some top-tier colleges—including Yale, Princeton, Duke, and Cornell—actually scored lower than their freshman peers...
Administered to over 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 schools, the survey gauged “civic literacy” through 60 multiple-choice questions. Among other things, it quizzed students about the Puritans, the Constitution, and why “free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning...
...others dismiss the survey, saying its findings reflect its designers’ conservative views. ISI’s site says the institute aims to imbue college students with “a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society.” The institute’s president, T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., served as President Ronald Reagan’s top domestic policy adviser...
...integrating neo-conservative ideas into the college curriculum—and I see this study...as a political effort designed to energize such reforms,” Neil Gross, associate professor of sociology at Harvard, wrote in an e-mail. But Andrews said that the goals of the survey transcend any ideological lines...