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ksheldon@ucla.edu
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Paul Salopek traced
the gas sold at a Chicago-area station back to its
origins. The story appeared in the Chicago Tribune,
and this link will take you to the print story as well
as his video version - which includes an interesting,
though frustratingly brief, segment on Nigeria (other
segments look at Venezuela, Iraq, and the U.S. Gulf
Coast). "Safari" is his (or his paper's) term; one
quote from the print version: "Few Americans realize
it, but they have hitched their wagon--or rather their
210 million cars and trucks--to Africa's troubled star.
It is a striking development. The planet's last
superpower is rattling its half-empty oilcan at the
poorest continent in the world."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/broadband/chi-oilsafari-html,1,6933468.htmlstory?coll=chi-newsspecials-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
or as an alternative:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-oilsafari2-htmlstory,0,3163462.special
or:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/broadband/chi-oilsafari-html,0,7894741.htmlstory
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