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Bermuda sits astride the main whale migration route, and because the motherland and other colonies demanded (and paid well for) the oil, the local population went into the whaling business.
Both the NYT and LAT run front-page pieces reporting that on Monday, the Clinton administration decided to allow Conoco to conduct oil drilling on a federal property in Utah where last year, during the election, Clinton established a national monument to protect the wilderness from development.
Liv Tyler is a lollipop for the eyes but doesn't speak, dress, or move like someone raised on a deep-sea oil derrick.
In any event, it is still not clear why an oil shortage should put pressure on refining (one would expect the reverse) and why the prices resulting ought to rise (for fear would scarcely suggest `reduction' except in a petroleum trade journal or oil company annual report).
The n-3 ethyl ester concentrate of fish oil (FOC) containing > 65% n-3 ethyl esters, (> 33% EPA, > 22% DHA, 10% other n-3 fatty acids), was obtained from the Lipro AS, Norway and was supplied antioxidant-free.