The Boston Globe, September 11th, 1988
In the midst of the oil shortage of the early 1970s, Ahmad Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's energy minister, dismissed the value of petroleum in his country's long-range future. Oil aplenty lies beneath the sands of the Arabian desert, Yamani said, but it is a finite resource. Mecca and Medina, on the other hand, are the holiest shrines of Islam. We may run out of oil in Saudi Arabia someday, he said, but we will never run out of Mecca and Medina. So it is with Massachusetts, its soul and its economy. High-tech, money-managing and insurance may someday go the way of shoes, ships and textiles, but M...
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