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...major spill within five hours. When the unthinkable happened, the reality was somewhat different: the first crews and equipment did not get to the spill until ten hours after the accident. And then they could do little because booms to contain the oil and mechanical skimmers to scoop it up were pitifully insufficient. Moreover, the barge capable of receiving the skimmed oil had been damaged and could not be deployed until the next...
...work hard, and hopefully you come up with the ground ball," Vogel added. "Dono is a premiere face-off artist. He has a great draw and he never misses a scoop...
...covering death, reporters and editors face a difficult paradox: the best material in a journalistic sense very often turns out to be what is most painful to grieving survivors. News organizations, driven by intense competition, rarely let concern for a victim's privacy get in the way of a scoop. The push for live coverage of late-breaking news has put local TV stations in the uncomfortable position of being able to broadcast word of a person's death before the victim's family has been officially notified...
...travel a lot," he said. "You can scoop up disasters sooner or later." He said his films are usually shot over a period of about two years and edited in one to three months...
...what's the scoop? Is mine a case of being a liberal sheep in a wolfish conservative's clothing, of being a hypocrite? Or is a Harvard liberal education claiming the mind of yet another previously close-minded conservative...