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...third great boom. Oil companies-notably Atlantic Richfield, Exxon and Sohio-have already found immense reserves of natural gas under the frozen tundra of the North Slope. Geologists believe that there may be as much as 300 trillion cu. ft. of gas in deposits in Alaska's Arctic; those deposits could supply 5% of U.S. annual demand (currently 22 trillion cu. ft.) when tapped, thus helping to head off the long-predicted severe shortage in U.S. gas supplies. In fact, the gas could begin to flow from the Alaskan wells into the Lower 48 as early...
...second proposal, championed by Arctic Gas, a consortium of 19 American and Canadian pipeline, oil and utility companies, would bring the gas to U.S. markets entirely overland through 5,450 miles of lines from the North Slope through Canada. Although the $9 billion Arctic Gas plan would cost about $1.2 billion more than the El Paso system, it would also apparently be simpler to operate. Unlike the El Paso proposal, it would require no fleet of special-purpose tankers, no liquefication and deliquefication plants and no complex reshuffling of regional gas supply patterns...
...those "arctic air masses" start rolling in, the problem of getting exercise without spending a lot of money becomes acute. Most winter sports in this part of the world require a raid on operating capital, and there is no way around that: you want to skate, you gotta have skates; you want to ski, you gotta have skis; you want to swim, you gotta have a pool; and on it goes. (All of which is not to mention the financial and political problems involved in those ever-popular jaunts to Third World countries near the Equator...
...French Alps not long ago, still claims to receive all the transcendental soothing he needs from the music of J.S. Bach. In a modern Western hotel, surrounded by efficient American business types and electronic paraphernalia, Kroon recounts, the Maharishi seemed a bit uprooted, "like a flamingo in an Arctic landscape," but he still registered as an affable and reasonably forthcoming personality...
...northern terminus at Prudhoe Bay. The winds finally came, and the convoy moved out. But the winds shifted unexpectedly and began blowing ice back into the path of the fleet. Last week the convoy was forced to retreat 30 miles to avoid being frozen in for the long Arctic winter...