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...industry to search for oil and make a profit at $15 per bbl., about half the threshold of just a decade ago. For example, the industry has adapted the computer-visualization techniques Hollywood used in movies like Jurassic Park for 3-D seismic visualization of potential reserves deep underground...
However, one blocking group says cabletelevision did not lure them to DeWolfe--it wasthe underground parking...
...sound of slack key music strumming in the background. Tropical flowers adorned the walls, people in bright aloha shirts darted around excitedly, and the familiar smell of kalua pig wafted through the room. Kalua pig, the centerpiece of every luau, is fire-roasted on red-hot stones in an underground oven called an imu. I assume that the organizers couldn't pull off the red-hot stones in the frozen MIT ground, but the pig tasted delicious nonetheless. Soon after my arrival there was the inevitable rush to the serving table, replete with the typical luau spread: somen salad, lomi...
...enthusiasm for the performer. Some take the "first row" in front of the musician, directing their full attention to the show. Others maintain a comfortable distance from Pumla, glancing frequently to catch a glimpse of the singer. And then there are those who pretend not to even notice the underground attraction, staring at the tracks, seemingly mesmerized by the scuffling mice below. But at least a handful of members from each of these groups end up emptying their pockets for Pumla before they board...
...those rising waters--26 billion gal.--lap menacingly just blocks from the center of town and 360 ft. below the rim of the pit, threatening one day to spill into an underground aquifer and send a tide of contaminants seeping into neighborhoods and creeks across the Summit Valley. Some people are concerned about a shroud of morning mist and fog--a product of the lake--that envelops parts of the town. "All that moisture has to be carrying bad things in it," says worried restaurateur Buck Loomis...