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The ‘Twilight Zone’ challenge

08/18/2008
By NINA RACH
A 1963 episode of the popular television series, “The Twilight Zone,” told of a rich executive who, with no new business challenges to conquer, made a deal with the Devil to return as a young man to his childhood home in the late 19th Century and build his fortune again with the hindsight of modern knowledge.He used the limited investment funds allowed him to buy land he knew would be a future oil field, then told the sellers how he outsmarted them. But they already knew about the oil; they also knew it couldn’t be developed with the cable-tool technology of that day. Not to be thwarted, the executive approached a blacksmith with an idea for building a rotary bit. &ldquo...
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