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Nowhere is concern over the future more manifest than in Saudi Arabia, where a feudal monarchy rules a sparsely settled (estimated pop. between 4 million and 7 million) land containing 23.2% of the world's proven oil reserves. The ruling House of Saud was badly shaken by last month's attack on the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest shrine in Islam. It was originally reported that the attacking guerrillas were religious fundamentalists who were seeking the recognition of their leader as the Muslim Mahdi or Messiah. Saudi officials later confirmed that although some of the intruders were...
Ball handling and foul shooting have proven the other big weaknesses. Kleinfelder has started various combinations of guards Pat Horne, Stacie McMahon, Nancy Boutillier, Ann Scannell and Frenesa Hall. Nothing clicked until the Springfield game. With third-year player McMahon the only non-freshman of the corps, inexperience remains the easy but accurate diagnosis for the cagers' dribbling woes...
Welcome to booming Alberta, the Texas-size province that contains roughly 85% of Canada's proven oil and gas reserves, half of its coal, some major untapped hydropower sites, and vast, oil-bearing tar sands...
...quite possible that Alberta's energy bonanza will not give out for many decades. Expert estimates of conventional oil reserves range from 5 billion to 8 billion bbl. (The U.S. has proven reserves of 28.5 billion bbl., and Mexico has 16 billion bbl.) Most significant, Alberta has huge additional "unconventional" sources of energy that are not yet economical to tap but will become increasingly feasible -and necessary-as oil prices rise. The basic sources are heavy bitumen oil and the tar sands, which together could provide as much as 320 billion bbl., or enough to supply the entire world...
Dressler said that even if the left-handed structure is not proven to exist in natural DNA molecules, the discovery of a DNA structure different from the Watson-Crick model may have important implications...