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...Banjar Panji-1 never should have gotten so out of control, according to Richard Swarbrick, a British expert on geological pressure and a consultant to oil companies. Usually, when drilling in geologically unstable areas, engineers install steel casing at greater depths, where the low density of the rock might allow fluid to escape from the borehole. In the event of a kick, the casing allows drillers to maintain the integrity of the well. Swarbrick, who has reviewed Lapindo's drilling plan, says the company originally intended to install casing at depths...
...Indonesian Cabinet minister, attempted to unload Lapindo for $2 to a company based on the island of Jersey but owned by Bakrie's family conglomerate. When Indonesian financial regulators blocked that sale, Energi Mega tried to sell half the beleaguered Lapindo to the Freehold Group, registered in the British Virgin Islands. That deal also collapsed amid controversy. The attempted corporate reshuffling raised fears among many that Lapindo was preparing to declare bankruptcy, thus potentially allowing parent company Energi Mega Persada to evade any liability for Lusi. Lapindo says it is committed to compensating Lusi's victims...
...GAMBLING $1.97 million Amount a British man won on a Feb. 22 horse bet at William Hill bookmakers in North Yorkshire, where he is a regular customer 98? Amount he placed on eight horses. He placed similar bets on an almost daily basis. The odds of winning were 2 million...
...Aborigines' moccasins, trying native foods and Aboriginal bush-burning techniques. Within two years of settlement, convicts were living in the bush year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung between cordial and violent, but there was little of the slaughter that was to come...
...writes Ballard, with children often treated as "an appendage to their parents, somewhere between the servants and an obedient Labrador." He claims these were happy days, yet time and again he mourns, without rancor, the lack of parental warmth, which he blames on the stiff formalities of the British middle classes of the time. "The vistas of polished furniture," he writes, "turned a family home into a deserted museum, with a few partly colonised rooms where people slept alone, read and bathed alone, and hung their clothes in their private wardrobes along with their emotions, hopes and dreams...