Shortcuts are never advisable but the most efficient path always is. No doubt we've all been humbled by a shortcut that turned into the long way around. Shortcuts, the attempt to skip over critical elements in a process to achieve the end more quickly, always results in a compromised foundation. The various stakeholders in the recent oil …
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A Blowout Preventer for Humankind: How to Save the Environment
Cleanup crews are working feverishly to deal with a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. An explosion of unknown origin damaged the rig and the failure of the blowout preventer, a backup system for containing spills of this type located nearly 5,000 feet below the ocean's surface, compounded the containment efforts (http://tinyurl.com/2fdda38). Earlier today, a young man …
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Gregory Hake 