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...Delta, exploded in a massive fireball. The inferno left dozens of bodies charred beyond recognition. Police say that the explosion was most likely caused by vandalism. The pipeline, which ran under a beach, had been uncovered. Small holes had been drilled in it through which thieves could tap off fuel. The leaking pipeline had attracted local villagers who were filling containers when it blew. Nigeria's Red Cross said that the explosion ignited hundreds of cans full of fuel. Yet incidents like last week's tragedy are not the greatest danger to Nigeria's oil industry. Nigerians have long vandalized...
...second best trick, which I'm trying at the moment, is to make room for gas in my general household budget by living as if it were 10 years ago, when fuel was relatively inexpensive and my personal consumption habits were too. I drank my water from the tap back then, not from bottles brought on ships from Iceland, and I let my cell phone ring however it wanted to rather than paying for special tones. Perhaps by returning to older, simpler ways I'll find the extra 11 bucks I need now to fill my tank past the three...
...early Facebook euphoria,” Kaufman said. “There is now a withdrawal as students realize that employers and deans look at this.” And Facebook users have an added incentive to remain discrete, now that their younger siblings in high schools nationwide can tap into the site. Of course, in some instances when undergrads indicate that they’re “engaged” on the Facebook, wedding bells are indeed ringing. Lana Lobachova ’06 has been dating her fiancé for five years, and the marriage...
...with her two older sisters, both students of the ALB program.Unlike Nurse, Shortill initially found herself in social limbo. Looking back, Shortill says forming a social network is the hardest part of the extension school experience. “There’s not a huge community you can tap into very easily. There is a student association, but it’s hard for people to meet because everyone has their own life,” she says. “You get a college experience that is completely not coddled in any way, there is no hand holding...
...tries to lease stores wherever possible rather than build or buy its own, in order to avoid hassles with permits. "We try to outsource our problems with bureaucracy," he says. The growth of this new generation of Russian retailers is good news for foreign consumer-goods firms trying to tap into the market. Already some foreigners are working closely with the new generation of Russian retailers, hoping to piggyback off their expansion. The French cosmetics firm L'Oréal, for example, is selling in Russia two skin-care lines, Vichy and La Roche-Posay, distributed exclusively through pharmacies...