Skin lightening products -- also known as bleaching creams, whiteners, skin brighteners, or fading creams -- work by reducing a pigment called melanin in the skin. Most people who use lighteners do so to treat skin problems such as freckles, age spots, acne scars, or discoloration related to hormones.
The Deepest Oil Well. 555 feet: Total height of spar. 13 days: Time it took to secure spar to seafloor. 10,000: Number of cars it would take to equal Perdido's weight. 9,627 feet: Water depth at deepest well. 184 miles: Total length of pipeline laid on seafloor.
Here's how the US is becoming the world's biggest oil and gas producer. Last week the International Energy Agency reported that the US will become the world's top oil producer by 2015 â that's two years earlier than previously predicted. The driver is shale â a natural gas trapped in sedimentary rock, extracted by drilling and then injecting a watery mixture into shale formations. According to the IEA, this boom in natural gas production could cut the US's dependence on foreign oil almost entirely over the next two decades.