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...shale and other synfuel development may be sliding into a long twilight. This has happened several times in the past. Said a Department of Energy Official: "We've been witnessing the birth of this industry for 100 years." In the 1920s, oil was in short supply and there was great talk about shale development. Then the East Texas oil fields were discovered, and shale was forgotten. For now, Colorado shale rock is likely to remain in them thar hills. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Robert T. Grieves/New York, Richard Woodbury/Parachute
Harvard senior Alex Seaver, according, to Fish, "played a guy that was in the Twilight Zone, having so many winners that it was just hard to believe." That extra-terrestrial being was Dan Saltz and he routed Seaver for UCLA's only easy win, a 6-2, 6-1 triumph...
...THEORY STILL LINGERING in this twilight of the Me-Generation holds that apology is never necessary. If the results of an act can be traced to malicious intent, the reasoning goes, then apology stands naked as the tribute vice pays to virtue. If, on the other hand, no harm is meant, then apology is equally gratuitous...
...longer an upturn is delayed, economists fret, the greater becomes the still small chance that it will turn into something that could be called a depression. One reason is psychological: as bad economic news persists, the word depression moves out of the twilight zone into public discussion, just possibly to the point of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Administration's putdown of depression was prompted in part by a spate of articles in newspapers like the Washington Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Wall Street Journal that have discussed just such a possibility...
When the speech is over and the caravan heads out of town, Maldonado and Carpio are moved into the two bulletproof vans, and the volunteers who ride shotgun unsheath their weapons. For the next hour, the campaigners drive watchfully through the narrow roads and mountain passes at twilight until, it seems, the danger is gone. On the way back to the capital, Maldonado and his men are exhausted, caked with the day's dirt. "We go with our language of moderation, peace, everything, trusting justice rather than strength," says the candidate. "I know it's difficult...