“It was frightening, but I was more excited than frightened.”

“It was frightening, but I was more excited than frightened.”

Devin Tedrow, 22, Navy petty officer and a 2007 Boardman High School graduate, describing his emotions when his ship encountered and helped capture pirates in the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea.

“That’s where the oil is. ... You can’t find any oil any cheaper anywhere else.”

Eric Smith, associate director of Tulane University’s Energy Institute, explaining the energy industry’s push to drill ever deeper in the ocean in search of huge oil deposits, despite the mammoth risks and unique challenges.

“I think it became clear that this was something that Wal-Mart, as the largest grocer in the country, needed and wanted to do.”

Margaret McKenna, Wal-Mart Foundation President announcing that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to significantly ramp up its donations to the nation’s food banks to $2 billion over the next five years.