Dark and dingy in the true tradition of an alternative rock club, D-22 has become the focal point of the Beijing rock scene.
"We have reached the evaluation that the D-1 area of crushed rock in the premises of the Tsuruga power plant needs to be taken into consideration from the perspective of quake-resistant design, " Kunihiko Shimazaki, deputy chairman of the authority, told reporters during a news conference following a panel meeting where the report was approved.
But XTO, with a smaller capital structure than the supermajors', is happy to invest in the neglected fields, using new techniques of 3-D imaging, horizontal drilling and so-called fracture stimulation--blowing open rock formations by injecting mudlike fluids down wells to get at big methane reservoirs.
By high school, he'd discovered rock climbing, becoming a self-described "dirtbag" who loved to tackle risky ascents.
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They'd balance a spoon-shaped piece of magnetic rock on any flat surface, and since it was magnetic, the handle would swivel to align itself with the Earth's magnetic poles.
Now Josh, the I'm-going-to-be-a-reporter-someday crew member, and Michael, the I-really-want-to-be-a-rock-star prompter operator, were around me, wearing the same expression you'd have after witnessing a car wreck.
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The truth was, I was morbidly embarrassed -- the kind of embarrassed where you'd rather crawl under a rock than face people.
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"If you've got a rock star, let him rock, " said the committee's chairman, Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn.
Things have been further complicated by management changes at the Times which have resulted in the Times hiring a number of editors - including several from the Washington Post - and reporters with a very different political orientation than the rock-ribbed conservatism that has been that paper's hallmark, and its raison d'etre.
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