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Science 8 March 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5254, pp. 1358 - 1359
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5254.1358
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News & Comment

Dennis Normile

Hayama, Japan--Last month, officials from Japan's Marine Science and Technology Center got the chance to display for an international audience their next claim to fame: the world's deepest drilling scientific ocean drill ship, with special equipment that allows it to drill into oil and gas deposits. The government seems willing to pay the $500 million price tag, but it wants help from the rest of the world in operating the vessel and providing it with sufficient intellectual capital.




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