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Near Santa Barbara, a test to tap natural oil and gas leaks
...tap those natural polluters, the Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO) ordered up two pyramidal traps, the first of which was installed a fortnight ago. Placed over an area with a large concentration of leeps, they will sit on the sea floor like upside-down funnels, collecting gas and oil. The natural gas is siphoned off through a 6-in.-wide pipe that runs along the ocean bottom to shore. The oil will be stored in tanks within the pyramids and periodically emptied by ships. The project is expected to yield...
...owner of the premises, the defendant replied that he was "obeying a little voice in my head. Security was so bad I wanted to show as an example that I could get in." As for the alleged theft, he said, "I was thirsty and could not find a tap. [The wine] was in a cupboard. I was just waiting to be captured." As courtroom explanations go, they were certainly imaginative. But they were enough to convince a jury at London's Old Bailey that Michael Fagan, 34, had not acted criminally. After deliberating for only 14 minutes, the jury...
...outset of the half, but four penalty corners and a Kate Martin near-miss later, the stickwomen were still in a scoreless deadlock. After 14 minutes of anticipation, Jenney Hunnewell managed to flip the ball to White. White weathered a crowd to the left of the Bentley net to tap in Harvard's first tally...
...lure of the legit is strong enough to have attracted star actors who might otherwise be making much more money in Hollywood movies. Tommy Lee Jones and Tuesday Weld tap the dignity of N. Richard Nash's prairie romance, The Rainmaker (next month on HBO). Faye Dunaway and Dick Van Dyke made for a moving odd couple in The Country Girl (Showtime). And Malcolm McDowell captured the fury, if not the poetry, of angry young Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (Showtime...