The James Logan Courier

By Bruce Siceloff
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

RALEIGH, N.C. — Lauren Wooten and her Mustang have been in demand since she started driving this spring.

"It's 'Oh, let's ride with Lauren — she has her license now,'" said Wooten, 16, a Clayton High School sophomore. "I find myself taking people places, and I'm usually the one driving."

She won't ask friends to help buy gas, she said, "because I would feel rude."

By David Lightman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — President Bush proposed Wednesday to allow drilling off U. S. coastlines as part of a plan to boost oil supplies, but his plan is likely to go nowhere because of a reluctant Democratic-majority Congress, which fears environmental costs.

Even if U.S. coastal waters were opened to exploration, experts agree that it would take at least seven and probably 10 years before any benefits were apparent.

Bush talked tough, saying "our nation must produce more oil, and we must start now." He said that expanding drilling offshore could produce enough oil to "match America's current oil production for 10 years."

From wikipedia:
Winifred Holtby (June 23, 1898 - September 29, 1935) was an English novelist and journalist.

Born to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston, Yorkshire. Holtby was educated at home by a governess and then at Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough. Although she passed the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917; World War I changed her plans. In early 1918, she joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), but soon after she arrived in France, the war came to an end.

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