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...Pullen, a marine-conservatio n officer with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "This is a horrible disaster: a toxic cloud of chemicals is spreading through the water." At first the area around Fitful Head was fouled by the oil. Birds such as the shag and the great northern diver became coated with crude and died. Whipped up by the 90-m.p.h. winds, an oily mist spread over the southern end of the Shetlands' main island, coating crops and flocks of sheep as well as people. Fish and other sea life were found dead on the beaches...
...Diver Marcia Vital rounded out the Harvard wins with a victory in the 3 meter platform event...
...current study is the most comprehensive long-term evaluation of the outcome of the technique," said Harvard Medical School assistant professor of medicine Dr. Daniel Diver, the paper's senior author. "Now we know it can provide enduring benefit...
...look at the Constructivist designs for agitprop events -- the red panels of Natan Altman's bold transformation of the huge Palace Square in Leningrad for the first birthday of the October Revolution, or the steel-truss tribune designed by Lissitzky to carry Lenin forward like a high diver over the heads of a crowd -- without a feeling of exhilaration: this, not the bureaucratic and murderous reality of institutional Marxism, is what it was meant to be like, that now closed chapter in Russian history...
There was no shortage of winners as the Olympics loudspeakers began playing national anthems last week: Fu Mingxia, the poised Chinese diver who was not even born when El Loco began hitting home runs for Cuba; the Maldivian swimmer who became the first in his country's Olympic history not to finish last (in part because that position was already occupied by another Maldivian swimmer...