Word: gals
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...world's largest and most profitable oil company just pay the victims and move on? Exxon recently argued its third appeal of the award handed out by a jury in 1994 as punishment for the Valdez spill, the largest in U.S. history, which dumped more than 11 million gal. of oil into Alaskan waters. Exxon says it has already paid out more than $3 billion and owes nothing else. The oil giant has spent an estimated $400 million fighting in court. "The company took immediate responsibility for the spill, cleaned it up and voluntarily compensated those who claimed direct damages...
...business trip to Los Angeles and finding herself (by golly!) probing the death of a movie star. Roberts, 15, calls her character, first introduced in novels in the 1930s, "the Barbie of her time," meaning, we suppose, an icon. Either that or a well-dressed gal with lots of cool gadgets...
...Matalin: Here's my prediction for 2008, the first guy or gal, the first candidate, whose message is hopeful and optimistic and "can do" will be the first guy out of the pack and the last guy left standing. People are in bad news fatigue. I really would like to see an honest, authentic serious debate. This is historic in that both primaries are wide open. Seeing who the nominee is will be like watching what the Democrats stand...
...nearly two acres of tundra. An aging pipe, installed during the Ford Administration, had corroded from the inside and oozed oil out of an almond-size hole--a leak that went undetected for at least five days. None of the pipeline's alarms were tripped. In all, 201,000 gal. of crude escaped, making the spill the largest ever to hit Alaska's North Slope...
Alison Goldfrapp has described her band's third album as a "place to take part in fortnightly disco séances." If you like your dance divas nuttier than a fruitcake, she's definitely your gal. What's surprising is that Goldfrapp (who started out as the wordless howler on Tricky's finest albums) and musical partner Will Gregory also have a sublime pop sensibility. Ooh la la is a sticky homage to Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky and Kylie Minogue's lyric book ("switch me on/ turn me up"). Meanwhile, the synth-rock ballad Number 1 has enough...