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First in line among the things she has no need to do is Star Academy, a French reality game show in which marginally talented young aspirants live in a house and vote one another out on the basis of their progress in becoming slick professional singers. (Imagine the cheese factor of Big Brother, Survivor and American Idol--in French.) But just a few hours after her edict about performing, Twain, 37, is singing her signature ballad, You're Still the One, in a duet with Jeremy, a young Frenchman whose penchant for accidental key changes augurs poorly for an extended...
ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEM Currents and winds have carried the slick through coastal fishing grounds and across nearly 200 miles of shoreline. The sludge has coated hundreds of seabirds and closed local fisheries. Now other areas are threatened: shellfish beds and a nature preserve for marine birds, including the near extinct Iberian guillemot...
CONTAINMENT Floating barriers are placed around the oil out at sea or along a shoreline to contain the mess. In rough seas, however, these barriers are useless. Chemical gelling agents could be used to help thicken the slick and make it more manageable...
...board with two officers, reportedly refused to allow tugboats to tow the stalled ship. He was arrested for disobeying official orders and endangering the environment. Tugs eventually tried to tow the tanker 200 km out into the Atlantic as authorities used barriers to keep a 37-km-long oil slick from the ecologically sensitive coast. BRITAIN Cyanide Plot Foiled Police charged three North African Muslims with terrorist offences. The London Times reported that they were plotting to release cyanide gas in the London Underground. The plot was foiled by intelligence agents who infiltrated a terrorist group said to have links...
...Favorite Stir Fry Green Beans” ($12), a rather pointless dish, ineptly executed. The scallops are parched and petrified by over-zealous heat, and the beans make a dubious accompaniment, sitting forlornly in a thin gingery broth. The other starter, however, is sensibly composed—the slick fatty warmth of grilled duck sausage and bruschetta slathered with pâté de foie gras, pointedly countered by tart pickled grapes ($10), each constituent equally prominent and clearly articulated...