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...rigs are operating in Wyoming today than at any other time in the past 20 years, and revenue from mineral royalties and taxes topped $1.6 billion in 2005, pumping state budgets with cash. In Casper, the state's energy-industry hub, a 36-hole public golf course, a gleaming pool and river walks opened recently to serve its 50,000 residents. A new hospital and courthouse are under consideration...
...suggesting that people who live in harm's way pay the full price. For events that happen more frequently, insurance companies should absolutely provide coverage. When you get to the very large events that happen more infrequently, those events should be covered by a state pool funded by all its citizens through an additional charge on insurance premiums or whenever a real estate transaction occurs. What we're advocating is, Let's be smart and do it up front and have the people who live in harm's way provide much of the pooled relief and then have the Federal...
...beds in the rooms, and his vintage cars in the garage. These and other thoughtful touches - including complimentary minibars and free wi-fi access - will have you feeling quite at home. A cozy cigar lounge-cum-library, beds adorned with Belgian linen and down-filled pillows, and a swimming pool - rare in a property this size - make it even harder to leave. PHRANAKORN NORNLEN: Not so much a boutique hotel as a backpacker hostel done right, the 50-room Phranakorn Nornlen, www.phranakorn-nornlen.com, wins the approval of its bearded, tie-dye clientele by incorporating recycled materials in almost every aspect...
...immersed herself monthly in a mikvah, or ritual bath. The act, which marks the seven-day juncture after menstruation when the Orthodox Jewish tradition considers a woman ready to resume marital relations, was indisputably meaningful to Cohen, but some of the facilities she had been using were uninspiring. The pool, she says, looked "like someone had dug a hole and put some plaster in it"; its rabbinically mandated rainwater sometimes bore someone else's hair. Cohen sighs, "You just wanted...
...full answer may have to wait for a new generation of telescopes expected to come on line within the next decade. In astronomy, size matters, especially for faraway objects. The bigger a telescope, the more of a distant galaxy's meager light it can gather--just as a swimming pool catches more rain than a bucket. So astronomers are looking forward to a ground-based monster with nearly 10 times the light-gathering area of the Keck, a space telescope more than 10 times as big as the Hubble and several radio telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity. Meanwhile, using the basic...