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IT is covered by thick ice, plunged into darkness for much of the year, and blasted by freezing winds. But the Arctic Ocean is being transformed by global warming from a no-man's-land into the front line of a scramble for resources. The melting of the ice pack is opening up vast reserves of offshore oil and gas, new shipping routes and fishing grounds, according to experts at the World Economic Forum. But the scramble for Arctic wealth is complicated by arguments over which countries have legal claim to the territory, plus border disputes, including those between Russia and the US....

May 16, 2003 Turning turkey into oil Process gleans fuel from waste By BILL BERGSTROM Associated Press Writer Brian Appel, chairman and chief executive officer of Changing World Technologies, holds up a glass vial containing oil produced from turkey products in the company's Philadelphia plant. The CWT plant uses the first commercially successful application of thermal processing to convert organic waste like tires, plastics, raw sewage, plant and animal waste into clean fuel. AP Photo/MARK STEHLE PHILADELPHIA -- The versatile turkey has been chopped, pressed and processed into foods as diverse as burgers and bacon. Now a Long Island entrepreneur...