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That startlingly bright patch of light in North Dakota visible from outer space

Michael Allan McCrae | January 18, 2013 | 7:45 pm Energy 

Once it was mostly dark, but the ascent of the natural gas boom and hydraulic fracturing has turned a relatively empty part of the US prairie into a blaze of light visible from outer space. NPR's Robert Krulwich writes about...

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