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...places seem to be hit as hard as northwestern Colorado. New drilling technology and rising energy prices caused exploration to flourish in the region in the past few years. The Piceance Basin alone drew dozens of exploration firms, including large companies like Chevron. Now those firms are pulling back. Harpole expects the number of rigs in the Piceance Basin, which energy experts say is one of the largest natural-gas reserves in North America, to drop 40% in the coming months. "There is a systematic change in thinking among energy companies that you could not have guessed just six months...
...pieces, two of which are Campbell’s own compositions. The trio closes with Chick Corea’s “Fingerprints”—a piece whose running melody line is punctuated with syncopated, tangy dissonant chords—and ends with a flourish and a bang. As the audience gives the group its due of applause, Lily Pad owner Gill Aharon comments, “You’re lucky you’re getting it while it’s still free.” MUSICIAN Campbell has been a player...
...Crimson, an abysmal 1-12 at the Philadelphia landmark since 1982, was on the verge of coughing up a 17-0 third-quarter lead and, with it, first place in the Ivy League standings.But Harvard (8-1, 5-1 Ivy), as it has all season, finished with a flourish, as senior Ryan Barnes grabbed his third interception of the day in the end zone with 10 seconds remaining, and the Quakers (5-4, 4-2) threatening at the Crimson’s 12-yard line. The pick preserved a 24-21 win in front of 7,352 mostly hostile fans...
...Taylor met her 40-year-old husband, David Pollard, in an online chat room in 2003. Their mutual interest in Second Life helped their relationship flourish, and the couple married two years later. To mark the occasion, Laura Skye married Dave Barmy, Pollard's avatar (who clearly opted for the modest lifestyle on the game, living in a chalet with a Cobra helicopter gunship parked next to it), in a lavish ceremony on Second Life. "People find love in lots of different ways," Taylor said...
...that the company sees immediate potential. According to Unistraw consultant microbiologist Patricia Conway, a professor in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales, there's no doubt about the health benefits of good gut microbes. Harmful microbes will flourish, she says, unless enough beneficial ones are there to keep them under control. "It's like kids in the schoolyard: once the bullies are allowed to get stronger, the good kids go hide in the corners...