Portable heli rigs expand oil exploration worldwide
Parker Drilling Co. fields flying drilling rigs that move into remote areas by helicopter enabling exploration from the Amazon basin to Alaska. Each 4000-pound package rigs lift to sites, weigh 750 tons assembled, drill to 20000 feet, with 40 helirigs owned worldwide and 10 active in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Tulsa
Okla
Parker
Shelby Frink
Parker Drilling
Frink
Oklahoma
West
Texas
New Guinea
Parker Drilling Co
Peruvian
Amazon
Peru
Ecuadoran
UPI Televiee
Papua New Guinea
Coffee and Cancer Link Questioned by Doctors
Boston doctors review the Harvard finding that coffee raises pancreatic cancer risk. Four subsequent studies mostly find no link, with one noting a modest increase. Experts cite design flaws and alternative factors, while interest remains as researchers pursue larger studies to settle the issue.
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Boston
Harvard
Brian MacMahon
United States
MacMahon
Alan Leviton
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
National Coffee Association
Ellen Gold
Johns Hopkins University
University of Southern California
Thomas Mack
Jonathan M. Samet
University of New Mexico Medical Center
New England Journal of Medicine
Thomas C. Chalmers
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York
Alvan R. Feinstein
Yale
A. Nomura
Honolulu
Philippines weighs keeping or dropping Spanish language law
Manila officials debate repeal or retention of the 1952 law requiring college students to study Spanish a language rarely spoken by Filipinos. The Cabinet proposes keeping Spanish as compulsory for law diplomacy and history while making it optional in commerce medicine and other sciences as the National Assembly mulls repeal.
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Manila. Philippines
Spain
United States
Philippines
Ferdinand E. Marcos
National Assembly
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