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Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, 80, made a fortune for himself with risky investments and corporate raids. But the outspoken Republican's latest scheme, the Pickens Plan—a trillion-dollar blueprint for reducing oil dependency by increasing wind energy and switching to natural gas for transportation fuel—may be his biggest gamble yet.