Technology key to Basin's Oil in West Texas outlook
UT Austin geosciences chief William Fisher told a West Texas Energy Initiative gathering in Midland that the Permian Basin must keep oil and gas production through 2050 with technology. He cited recoverable oil and gas, urged downhole innovations, improved well completion and fracturing, and noted renewables as a future hub requiring energy storage advances. The event drew about 70 industry attendees.
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Judge Rejects England Plea in Abu Ghraib Abuse Case
A military judge at Fort Hood threw out Pfc Lynn England's guilty plea to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib ruling the error did not prove she knew her actions were wrong at the time. Col James Pohl entered a not guilty plea for England to conspiring with Pvt Charles Graner Jr to mistreat detainees at the Baghdad area facility. The mistrial sends the case back for review by Fort Hood commander Lt Gen Thomas Metz to decide new charges or actions.
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Texas House passes ban on sexually suggestive school routines
Odessa area cheer and dance coaches react to a Texas House vote approving a bill that allows the Texas Education Agency to define what counts as sexually suggestive in school routines. Coaches Kristin Lodal and Jamie Anderson see potential benefits for refining standards and curbing increasingly provocative performances.
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Odessa High School
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AIDS drug testing on foster children raises protections concern
Federal investigators review the use of hundreds of foster children in NIH funded AIDS drug trials across at least seven states in the 1990s and beyond. While some youths gained life extension, vulnerable minors faced medical research risks without independent advocates as required by federal law.
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Washington
Associated Press
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Louisiana
Maryland
New York
North Carolina
Colorado
Texas
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