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...scientists to trace the area's geologic history.) The verdict, confirmed by a second dating method and by the other primitive animals found with the hominid remains: most of the fossils are between 5.6 million and 5.8 million years old, although one toe bone is a few hundred thousand years younger...
...have declined by 30 cents a gallon to a national average of $1.41 a gallon since their mid-May high - 16 cents in the last week alone and 13 cents lower than last summer at this time, according to the Energy Department. Natural gas prices, after hitting $10 a thousand cubic feet last December, have dropped to the $3 range. Even in California, dire warnings of countless days of blackouts this summer have not materialized - there hasn't been one since early May - and electricity prices have declined dramatically. And more power is expected to come on line from several...
...thousand wells have been drilled into the coal beds of the basin, most of them in the past two years, to tap methane-gas reserves estimated at 25 trillion cu. ft.--the equivalent of a year's consumption for the entire U.S. Nearly 100 wells are being drilled each week, and the gas companies say the entire 8 million-acre basin could have 50,000 to 100,000 producing wells before they are finished...
...land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East. --Book...
...problem for Nevadans--and perhaps for the future of nuclear power in this country--because the Federal Government wants to bury inside Yucca Mountain the most toxic garbage that humankind has produced: 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste generated by America's 103 nuclear power plants. A thousand feet below the mountain's peak, a tunneling machine called the "Yucca Mucker" has bored a 25-ft.-wide shaft into its center; inside that shaft, technicians in hard hats are running tests to see whether Yucca can begin receiving high-level nuclear waste, perhaps by 2010. For the past...