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Buy high, sell low

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Observers believe that the country is spending more compared to what it is earning from the petroleum reserve in Louisiana. They argue that the 590 million barrels of oil requires $200 millon to maintain each year, but sells at $29 a barrel to give the country only about $171 million.

Author: Zorpette, Glenn
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1995
Petroleum, Petroleum reserves, Natural resources, Louisiana

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A new fat pipe

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The world's leading online service providers are seeking to forge partnership with major telecommunication companies in an attempt to provide ADSL services to subscribers. Unlike conventional modems, ADSL allows facilitated data transmission via higher frequency bands.

Author: Zorpette, Glenn
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
Usage, Innovations, Services, Data communications, Telecommunications transmission technologies, Digital telephone systems, Asynchronous communications, Asynchronous transfer mode

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A real dive: the U.S. Navy's Experimental Diving Unit is a diver's heaven - and hell

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The US Navy's Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) in Panama City, FL, takes charge of the US military's diving community by conducting tests for underwater equipment. The NEDU also is tasked to make researches on the physiological aspects of diving.

Author: Zorpette, Glenn
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
Equipment and supplies, United States. Navy

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