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...harbor or shoreline in the country, and you'll find derelict and abandoned vessels," says Doug Helton, acting director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris Program. NOAA data suggest there are at least 10,000 abandoned ships and obstructions peppering the U.S. coast, but experts predict there are far more. Helton says 3,000 to 4,000 abandoned vessels were scattered around the coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 alone...
...headed for passage - put out a statement blaming its failure on Democrats, starting with Barack Obama. "Barack Obama failed to lead, phoned it in, attacked John McCain, and refused to even say if he supported the final bill," the campaign said in a statement attributed to economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin...
...months following the enactment of Massachusetts’ health care reform act last year. The hospital system has already cut back on discretionary spending, such as travel costs, and is halfway through laying off roughly 300 workers—nine percent of its staff, according to Health Alliance spokesperson Doug M. Bailey...
...brain drain to Singapore and other regions that are actively seeking to develop their biotech industries. "The incentives are totally misaligned. The repetitive nature of funding the same universities and the same people--all of these things add up to the stagnant position that we're in," says Doug Ulman, president of the LAF and chairman of the Director's Consumer Liaison Group...
...more than three decades in the citrus business, Doug Bournique has never seen such a downpour over Florida's Treasure Coast and Space Coast regions. It's been impossible to pump the stormwater out quickly because adjacent bodies of water are also above normal level. "We're in unchartered territory. I've never seen it this wet," says Bournique, executive director of the Indian River Citrus League, which includes 900 grower-members from Palm Beach County north to the Daytona Beach area. "It really was a one-in-100-year rainfall event for this region...