Word: processing
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...tundra. Pipelines are now built 5 ft. above the surface to allow animals to pass beneath. A truck leaking a pint of transmission fluid is treated as an oil spill, reported as such and laboriously cleaned up. Even so, there are limits. "Drilling for oil is an industrial process," concedes Ronnie Chappell, the main spokesman for BP Amoco on the North Slope. "Some things you can't get rid of--like pipelines." The oil industry by its very nature is rugged and intrusive...
...Sources tell TIME that Dozoretz raised $450,000 from Denise Rich for the library. Its donor list is not public, and though Rich is not thought to be among the biggest givers, sources say her first gift of $250,000 was a significant early step in the fund-raising process...
...views of their employees are more complex. Fresh off the 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m. shift at Mead, Joey Depew, 25, devours a ham-and-cheese omelet at a local luncheonette. He and his wife Christie, who delivers for Pizza Hut, have two small children and are in the process of buying their first home. "A tax cut could help pay the mortgage," says Joey, who goes on to recite by heart most of the numbers from his W-2 form. But he stresses that he doesn't want a tax cut so large that it will threaten Social Security...
...Last week Atkinson said he would recommend that the University of California, one of the largest public systems in the country, no longer use the SAT in its admissions process. The proposal is monumental, not just because soon tens of thousands of high schoolers may no longer have to take the test to get into college but because it could fundamentally change the way the kids are tested...
...Frankly, despite some efforts, they have for the most part already allowed the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs in Kosovo to take place right before their eyes. Now their efforts to slow down rather than stop the process are going to decrease. A typical military reaction to a security threat would be to confine as many troops as possible to base and decrease movements. So far KFOR has demonstrated that the safety of their own troops comes long before the safety of any civilians in Kosovo, Serb or Albanian. Any action involving risk to the troops is canceled, and this...