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April 26, 2005

Otherwise known as the Strategic Petroleum Jelly Reserve

If, in the course of a worldwide oil price climb, you find yourself saddled with an underlubricated infant, now you know where to go:

"The new [neutrino] experiment at Fermilab, called MiniBooNE, is looking for [neutrino oscillation] but with a different setup, firing neutrinos into a spherical tank containing 250,000 gallons of baby oil."

("Tiny, Plentiful and Really Hard to Catch," by Kenneth Chang, The New York Times, April 26, 2005.)
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