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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Novatek and its partners Total and Chinese National Petroleum Company still lack $15 billion of the $27 billion needed to finance the Yamal LNG plant. naval power, the Chinese, for example, prefer pipeline natural gas supplies over seaborne LNG supplies. This could lead the Europeans and Chinese to search for other suppliers.

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Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

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In the second century CE, the Chinese scientist Zhang Heng developed an “earthquake weathercock.” At the 1895 International Geographical Congress, Rebeur-Paschwitz proposed setting up a worldwide network of seismological stations. Reitherman’s Earthquakes and Engineers: An International History (ASCE Press, 2012).

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