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Before you conclude that the moral of this story is that Canada is just lucky to have the stuff, read on. For the U.S. has vast quantities of a similar deposit called oil shale, a claylike rock soaked through with fossil fuel. In fact, at least 1 trillion bbl. of it, or four times Saudi Arabia's oil reserves, is locked up in the mountains 200 miles west of Denver. The U.S. spent billions of dollars to figure out a way to mine the stuff, then gave up and walked away. Why Canada has succeeded at creating a homemade source...
...published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal cowboy story set on some nameless frontier and wondered what all the fuss was about. For me, and for many white South Africans, it was an unbearably painful allegory about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, a book that engaged on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading it left one dazed and hypnotized...
...Sanchez, last week admitted that the Iraqi guerrillas were growing more effective and predicted even more lethal attacks in the near future. Bush has not helped matters with his continuing spew of stiff-necked platitudes, but he has been resolute, so far, about American postwar responsibilities. "We have a moral responsibility to leave Iraq better than we found it," a high-ranking Administration official told me last week. Morals often take a backseat to practicalities in the heat of an election, though, and one wonders whether the Democrats will resist the easy demagoguery of a Bring 'Em Home Now campaign...
...country's latest corruption scandals, the political maverick astonished the nation during a televised press conference last Friday by calling for a public vote of confidence. "I am trying to seek the people's renewed support over the accumulated mistrust because I want to manage state affairs with moral confidence," Roh said...
...that Third World churches risk cutting off the channels of funding from the West. The insurgents are ready to take the risk. "This is simony," says Bernard Malango, the primate of Central Africa. "Let the powerful people keep their money." He and other conservative primates told time that the moral cost of communion with an unrepentant ECUSA was higher. "We have lost our credibility," says Tanzania's Mtetemela. "How can we draw people to the faith of Jesus Christ if we do not follow the Scriptures?" Fudging things in the Anglican tradition would do no good. "We've talked around...