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...Machete Drill. Some time Wednesday morning the terrorists left their headquarters, located in a quiet Washington neighborhood six miles north of the White House. They were armed with rifles, shotguns and machetes. A neighbor later told police that he had seen the group drilling with machetes in the yard...
Life for the roughly 60 men aboard each drilling rig is a strict routine of twelve hours on duty and twelve off during seven days at sea. The center of the rig's activities is the mud-slicked drill floor, where half a dozen roughnecks struggle day and night with heavy chains and power-driven winches to shove 90-ft.-long pieces of drill pipe into the narrow hole. During the twelve hours off, the roustabouts spend most of their time sleeping, although they can also fish for baby sharks and sand trout or watch the latest porno movie...
...situation all the more frustrating is that relief is tantalizingly close. Some 300 to 600 feet below the surface lies a geological formation known as the Stony Creek alluvial fan that has 13 million acre-feet of water. The town is seeking a federal grant of $5 million to drill as many as 30 wells by May. But bureaucratic red tape has tied up the town's application for federal assistance...
Some producers are also refusing to pump from wells already drilled. Jones Co. Ltd. of Albany, Texas, spent $4 million drilling four wells in Colorado that one partner, Jon Rex Jones, estimates could be delivering gas to customers in six months. But he insists that he will not connect them to a pipeline unless he is certain of getting $2 per 1,000 cu. ft. for the gas. In addition, producers in Houston readily tick off examples of fields where they are sure gas exists in commercial quantities, but where they will not drill. Reason: unless the interstate price goes...
...American astronauts walk on the moon). The Super Bowl has made other contributions to the culture too, footnotes not to be lost. In 1967, The Game was responsible for the release of 4,000 pigeons in flight over the crowd, an exercise that produced history's most massive precision drill: the simultaneous holding of souvenir programs over 63,036 heads. Other wonders: a 30-foot statue of a Green Bay Packer snorting smoke from three-foot-wide flared nostrils; a hot-air balloon that, too cold to climb out of the stadium, drifted into the stands and was torn apart...