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The U.S. Coast Guard said this morning that a natural gas and oil drilling platform exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana. A Coast Guard spokesperson said the platform, Vermilion Oil Rig 360, is an oil and gas platform in 2,500 feet of wate...
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The notebook computers can overheat at the notebook's plug-in to the AC adapter, posing a burn hazard to consumers.
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An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill. A commercial helicopter company reported the blast around 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday, Coast Guard Petty Of...
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Binoche responds to the claim by Depardieu that "she has nothing".
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PakReport Maintains and Alerts Centralized Flood Data is a post from: ProPakistani
Devastating floods in Pakistan have claimed over 1600 lives and displaced over 18 million – or 1 out of every 10 people in the country ̵...
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Oil giant BP said today that the cost of tackling the Gulf of Mexico disaster
had risen to £5.2 billion so far.
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# trafficsafety
You're cruising down the road, nearing a school zone, when BAM! Out of nowhere, a little girl chasing her ball across the street appears. Your heart races, you slam on the brakes, and then her image dissolves. What? More »
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An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast; all 13 crew members were rescued
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators probing the May flash crash are focusing on a trading practice known as "quote stuffing", in which large numbers of rapid-fire orders to buy or sell stocks are placed and canceled almost immediately.
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By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Thursday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada announced a recall of three Toshiba Satellite T-series notebook computers: T135, T135D and ProT130, for reports that the units' AC adaptors cause ...
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Expecting a dangerous Hurricane Earl to pass as close as 30 miles from the Massachusetts coast, National Weather Service forecasters this morning expanded the area in which they are warning of possible impacts from the storm, issuing a hurricane watch for eastern Plymouth, southern Bristol, and Plymouth counties.
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Update 2 : Sounds like good news. There is no oil spill -- this was a shallow-water production facility. Not a drilling facility. Mariner Energy is bouncing back.
Update : According to Dow Jones, via CNBC, all workers have been accounted f...
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http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2010/09/02/text-messages-reveal-emotional-timeline-of-september-11-2001/ The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have been called the defining moment of our time. Thousands of people died and the...
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Stylophora Coral The Stylophora Coral is one of the most adaptable corals available. It can survive in a multitude of lighting intensities as well as a variety of water flow patterns. However, this Small Polyp Stony (SPS) Coral does best in b...
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Two years ago, a Spanair MD-82 crashed on takeoff at Madrid, killing 154 people and marking Spain's worst air tragedy in 25 years; now, malicious code infecting a maintenance department computer has been implicated in the crash. To be clear, the code...
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Thousands of people turn to the Lutheran Social Services Community Care Center in Van Nuys every year for help putting food on the table.
Last week, a sign went up on the door: “We’re sorry but we ran out of food.”
With demand for food assistanc...
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The ordeal of waiting for a miner trapped 2,200 feet below ground in Chile to be rescued can be perhaps more anguishing if you're also waiting for a minor to emerge.
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One Day Before Its Gulf Oil Rig Exploded, Mariner Energy Said Obama ‘Is Trying To Break Us’ With Moratorium
