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1. Afghanistan - Kabul Prefers Taliban (Electronic Telegraph - Spillius)
   Provides an overview of the state of battle in Afghanistan between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. 11-99

2. 11-19-02 Massive Oil Spill on Spain's Coast (CBS News)
   "A damaged tanker carrying more than 20 million gallons of fuel oil broke in two off northwest Spain and sank Tuesday, threatening an environmental disaster." 11-02

3. Bioremediation of Oil Spills (Science Education - Paustian)
   "Bioremediation is a method used to treat environments polluted with organic or inorganic substances. Research has been conducted on the possible uses of bioremediation since the 1940s. Bioremediation was used in the 1970s for the in situ (in place) clean up of fuel contaminated soil and groundwater." 2-03

4. -03-10-06 Biggest Oil Spill on Alaska's North Slope (MSNBC News)
   "An estimated 201,000 to 267,000 gallons of crude oil spilled in the North Slope pipeline leak discovered March 2, state officials announced Friday." 03-06

5. -06-16-06 Toxic Spill in China Approaches Water Supply for 10 Million (MSNBC News)
   "Chinese authorities tried to slow the spread of a toxic spill by building 51 makeshift dams along the tainted river and using fire trucks to pump out polluted water before it reaches a reservoir serving a city of 10 million people, state media said Friday." 06-06

6. -11-26-07 Why Cleanup of Oil Spill Lagged (Christian Science Monitor)
   "Local crab fishermen used to take part in drills to clean up oil spills, scooping up rice – the stand-in for an oil slick – that drifted atop the waters of San Francisco Bay. Then, about a decade ago, that training stopped. So when a real oil spill occurred earlier this month, the crabbers didn't have up-to-date certifications or strong ties with first responders. The Coast Guard initially rebuffed their help." 11-07

7. Water Pollution Resources (UK Rivers Network)
   Provides over 100 sources of information to help reduce various forms of water pollution, such as from fertilizer, oil spills and slicks, algae blooms, decommissioning of oil platforms and structures, debris and dumping of wastes, sewage and wastewater, atmospheric deposition (ocean pollution from air pollution), indoor air pollution caused by water pollution, volatile organic compounds, and laws related to water pollution. 11-00

8. Bacteria That Eat Oil Pollution (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
   Provides a description of bacteria that make oil spills nontoxic. 1-01

9. Pollution-Eating Microbes (Michigan State University)
   Provides information on the microbe, Azoarcus tolulyticus, an Anaerobic Toluene Degrader. This microbe can help clean up (bioremediate) pollution, such as oil spills. It needs nitrates, rather than oxygen, to live. 2-01

10. Helmets - HANS Device to Protect Neck (HansDevice.com)
    Describes a head and neck safety device that fits with a helmet to protect the neck in an accident. Cycle riders should consider the device since, in an accident with a car or even a spill, maximum protection for the neck is needed. 12-01

11. Essay - How the Last Round of Violence (Intifada) Started (CBC News - MacDonald)
    Provides the events, starting with Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount of Jerusalem, that led to the great increase in violence by Palestinians against Israeli civilians since September of 2000. "So, why would Sharon do it? Why come to this holy site and stick his finger in the Islamic eye, especially during the course of sensitive negotiations over sovereignty here?" MacDonald claims that Sharon provoked the Palestinians in order to improve his political position for running for Prime Minister.
    
    MacDonald points out that Palestinians used the ensuing situation for their own purposes also, rather than to pursue peace. An Arafat official stated 'Our national duty is to continue the confrontation, continue to sacrifice our martyrs, so that the blood will not have been spilled in vain.' 4-02

12. Fueling War - Oil and Iraq (CommonDreams.org - Klare)
    "As the United States gears up for an invasion of Iraq, the great unanswered question continues to be: Why is the Bush Administration so determined to topple a government that has been effectively contained by American power for eleven years?"
    
    "Growing worries about the stability of Saudi Arabia, principal US supplier there, heightened by revelations of Saudi extremists' involvement in the September 11 terror attacks, have prompted US strategists to seek a backup should future instability lead to a drop in Saudi oil production, which could trigger a global recession." "With proven reserves of 112 billion barrels of oil (compared with 49 billion for Russia and 15 billion for the Caspian states), Iraq alone can serve as a backup for Saudi Arabia. At the same time, control over Iraqi oil would allow US leaders to more easily ignore Saudi demands for US action on behalf of the Palestinians and would weaken OPEC's control over oil prices."
    
    "Whoever gains possession of these fields will exercise enormous influence over the global energy markets of the twenty-first century."
    
    "This could prove to be the biggest oil grab in modern history, providing hundreds of billions of dollars to US oil firms--many linked to senior officials in the Bush Administration--and helping to avert a future energy crunch in the United States. But is oil worth spilling the blood of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians who get caught in the way? This is the question Congress must ask if we are to have an honest debate on the merits of invading Iraq." 1-03

13. Pincay, Laffit Jr. (Courier-Journal - Harris)
    Provides profile of a great horse jockey. "The 56-year-old Hall of Famer ended his career with a record 9,530 victories, retiring yesterday nearly two months after breaking his neck in a spill." 7-03

14. Guthrie, Woody (RockHall.com)
    "The words and music of Hank Williams echo across the decades with a timelessness that transcends genre. He brought country music into the modern era, and his influence spilled over into the folk and rock arenas as well." 9-03

15. Sewer Pollution in the United States (InsightMag.com)
    "The leading cause of U.S. beach closings, according to NRDC and the EPA, is mismanagement of sewage-handling systems and urban storm-water runoff. Both utilities almost always are run by local governments, with partial funding and sporadic oversight typically kicked in from the state and federal levels. State and local agencies also manage beach functions in most cases. So in the end, there is no one left to be an independent watchdog."
    
    "Based on the limited data available on the topic, St. Louis appears to be at rock bottom, spilling an average of 26 billion gallons of untreated sewage and storm water during 106 "overflow" events each year. Portland, Ore., is a close second with 100 discharges but only 3.4 billion gallons of annual pollution." 5-04

16. -02-24-05 Bush and Putin Meet (ABC News)
    "President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Thursday on new efforts to keep nuclear arms out of dangerous hands, but their sharp differences over Russian backsliding on democracy spilled into an open and sometimes-prickly exchange." 02-05

17. Top Rated Mystery Movies and "Luminaries" (IMDB.com)
    Provides a list of the top 10 rated by IMDB. (Other surveys will result in different lists). The movies include Rear Window (1954), Citizen Kane (1941), The Usual Suspects (1995), Memento (2000), North by Northwest (1959), Vertigo (1958), The Third Man (1949), Rashômon (1950), Chinatown (1974), and The Maltese Falcon. Luminaries include Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, Dashiell Hammett, Basil Rathbone, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Anthony Shaffer, John Le Carré, Ralph Bellamy, and Warner Oland (1941). 7-05

18. Shane and Lipton: Agencies Knew of Danger Far in Advance (International Herald Tribune)
    "Disaster officials, who had drawn up dozens of plans and conducted preparedness drills for years, had long known that the low-lying city was especially vulnerable. But despite all the warnings, Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the very government agencies that prepared for such a calamity. On Thursday, as the flooded city descended into near anarchy, frantic local officials blasted the federal and state emergency response as woefully sluggish and confused."
    
    " 'We're in our fifth day and adequate help to quell the situation has not arrived yet,' said P. Edwin Compass 3rd, the New Orleans police superintendent."
    
    Marth Madden, former Louisiana secretary of environmental quality, commented on the lack of preparation for a breach of the levees. She said that the Army Corps "should have had arrangements in place with contractors who had emergency supplies at hand, like sandbags or concrete barriers, the way that environmental planners have contracts in place to handle oil spills and similar events. 'I'm just shocked,' she said." 9-05

19. -09-23-05 Rita Threatens Oil Industry (San Diego Union-Tribune)
    "Rita threatened dozens of refineries and chemical plants along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast that represent a quarter of the nation's oil refining capacity. Environmentalists warned of the risk of a toxic spill, and business analysts said Rita could cause already-high gasoline prices to rise to as much as $4 a gallon." 9-05

20. -04-10-06 Thousands Rally for Immigrants (USA Today)
    "Tens of thousands of immigrants spilled into the streets of Atlanta and other cities Monday in a national day of action billed as a 'campaign for immigrants' dignity.' "
    
    "In Dallas, where a march Sunday drew between 350,000 and 500,000 people, activists also were urging immigrants to showcase their spending power by not buying anything during an economic boycott. Rallies also were planned Monday in Houston, El Paso and Austin." 04-06

21. -10-20-07 Rowling Answers Questions (Time.com)
    "Last night's event was much better than the first time I saw Rowling, last summer at Radio City Music Hall for a reading. Back then, in between the sixth and seventh books, she found it very hard to say anything (though her big declaration was also about Dumbledore — that he was definitely dead). The half-answers and stalling were frustrating, albeit necessary, and she clearly felt confined by it. Her new freedom to talk about whatever she liked added an entirely different dimension to the evening, and to the series. As fans spilled out into the night, taking pictures with their newly signed books, I realized that this was not the end of Harry Potter, it was just the beginning of a new phase of the phenomenon." 07-07

22. -08-11-08 Behind the Struggle Between Russia and Georgia (MSNBC News)
    "What are the risks of a wider regional conflict?"
    
    "The risks here are great. With casualties to Russia’s peacekeeping force and attacks on Georgian territory beyond the conflict zone, we are already seeing the potential for this to spin into a larger, Russian-Georgian conflict. In addition, many of Russia’s unstable Caucus regions — Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan — are nearby and could see a spillover of violence into their regional conflicts." 08-08

23. -12-27-08 A Billion Gallons of Toxic Sludge from Coal Plant Site (CNN News)
    "The sludge, a byproduct of the ash from coal combustion, was contained at a retention site at the Tennessee Valley Authority's power plant in Kingston, about 40 miles east of Knoxville."
    
    "Environmental advocates say the ash contains concentrated levels of mercury and arsenic."
    
    "The plant sits on a tributary of the Tennessee River called the Clinch River. At least 300 acres of land has been coated by the sludge -- a bigger area than the Exxon Valdez oil spill." 12-08

24. -Editorial: Mexican Drug Cartels Operating in 230 U.S. Cities (Cafferty File)
    "The Obama administration says it will send hundreds of federal agents and crime-fighting equipment to the Mexican border in an effort to prevent drug-related violence from spilling over into this country. It’s a little late — the Mexican drug cartels are already active in 230 American cities." 03-09

25. Illegal Immigration at All Time High (CBS News)
    "After decades of attempting to dam the flow of Mexican immigrants crossing into the United States illegally, federal agents say a new crisis is emerging along the southern border and they are helpless to stop it."
    
    "Non-Mexicans are spilling over the border in record numbers - some from countries with terrorist ties - and most are set free soon after being captured." 7-05