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One of the ironies of the Persian Gulf spill, which some experts predicted would destroy the area's ecosystem, is that certain parts seem cleaner and healthier now than they were before the Iraqis dumped their crude. According to a study published last August in the journal Nature, the levels...
On a rainy night last week, a line of 21 gasoline tankers waited at the Bulgarian border post of Kalotina to cross into -- and allegedly through -- Serbia. Pero, the burly driver of one of the rigs, had the papers to prove that he was hauling his 32 tons of gasoline...
Coming the other way, legally, a half-mile-long column of oil tankers stream beneath a giant portrait of Saddam that marks an archway over the desert border. Each day they bring 50,000 bbl. of cut-rate fuel to Amman to sustain the stumbling economy of Jordan.
During the Persian Gulf war, women distinguished themselves in the cockpits of helicopters, midair refueling tankers and the lumbering C-141 transport jets that ferried troops across enemy lines. Their performance and that of all the 35,000 women who served in the gulf has generated support in Congress and...
Ironically, the technology's biggest virtue is also its major drawback: it is so sensitive to tiny bits of DNA that even the most minute contamination of laboratory samples can lead to false results. This sometimes vexing problem, however, has not stopped the flow of creative and occasionally wild ideas...