These jobs are widely distributed across the nation: 16 states have more than 150, 000 people employed by hydrocarbon-related activities.

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In fact, his articles have become a sort of faculty-ownership manifesto -- distributed widely over the Internet and cited in coverage from the Atlantic Monthly to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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