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Thirty-five miles out on the tundra and 30[degrees] below zero, a seismic crew is at work, stringing out lines of microphones in front of a 56,000-lb. "thumper truck" that sends vibrations through the earth in search of oil pockets. These are the toughest jobs in the industry. The 94-man crew works and lives out of a mobile camp: 30 bright-orange mobile homes on steel skis, linked together in six trains. In a season they will cover 400 square miles. The men travel the North Slope in Sno-Cats with rubber tracks to minimize damage...
...international opprobrium doesn't prod Europe to throw open its doors, there are signs that economic self-interest will. Last November the European Commission declared that "there is a growing recognition that the 'zero' immigration policies of the last 30 years are no longer appropriate." Germany announced plans last March to admit 20,000 foreign computer experts over the next three years, and Chancellor Gerhard Schrsder is pushing to expand this green-card initiative to workers in other sectors. Ireland has loosened immigration requirements for non-E.U. workers in technology, nursing and construction. Even Italy's government has introduced...
...workers over the next 50 years to replenish its aging population; but try telling that to downsized factory workers in Stuttgart or Glasgow. And diversity doesn't sell in the E.U.: just 5 million of its 350 million citizens live outside their native country. The Continent's long-standing zero immigration policy seems premised on nothing so much as a hope that the problem will go away: if you build a Fortress Europe, they won't come...
romaine and spinach lettuce and right now it's on and off. Usually, we just have the standard lettuce in the bag--iceberg lettuce with chopped-up carrots and turnips. That has about zero nutrition," says Publicity Chair for the Quincy House Committee Andrew P. Nikonchuck '02, who attended the focus group...
...those downloads were in the Supertramp category, songs that nobody would download if they had to actually pay for. So is it theft to take something you wouldn't pay for? Wouldn't economists simply say that for those items the market has decided that the natural price is zero dollars...