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California man wants to dive for bin Laden’s corpse
Bill Warren isn’t among the hordes who demanded to see photographs of fallen al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. No, he wants to see the body itself. Warren intends to dive into the Arabian Sea and search for bin Laden’s corpse as soon as he raises enough money to afford it…
US ‘unprepared’ for Japan-style nuke accident
WASHINGTON – A US nuclear reactor near Baltimore would come dangerously close to meltdown within two days of a disaster on the scale of what happened in Japan three weeks ago, a lawmaker said, citing a draft report by the US nuclear watchdog. At a hearing in the House of…
AP Enterprise: Scientists lower Gulf health grade
6 months after oil spill, scientists rate Gulf health worse, but not fatally so Six months after the rig explosion that led to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, damage to the Gulf of Mexico can be measured more in increments than extinctions, say scientists polled by The…
Decision expected on plug for BP’s broken oil well
Analysis of tests on BP’s broken Gulf oil well will show if leak is sealed for good Officials could know by early Friday if BP’s broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been sealed for good. BP PLC said Friday that tests on the well were being analyzed…
US lays out ‘static kill’ timeline, vows to have Gulf well sealed by mid-August
US officials laid out Monday a detailed timeline of how BP plans to permanently plug the Gulf of Mexico oil well, saying the all-important “static kill” would begin in one week’s time. By Saturday or Sunday at the latest, a final 2,000 feet (600 meters) of casing will be inserted…
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