Word: slicks
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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...
...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...
...latest live performance, for local radio station Metro Broadcasting's birthday-celebration concert, Chen had to follow several other new stars. Hers was a slick presentation: eight dancers and a newly red-haired Chen wearing an elaborate black dress over jeans. Her song stood out for its syncopated beat, as opposed to other Canto-pop tunes, which rely on a simple 4/4 rhythm. She nailed her moves and lip-synched in time. But she did not look happy. Sitting on a folding chair backstage in the changing room, Chen pulls out her digital video camera, rewinds to her first performance...
...continues to mine two inexhaustible resources: the DC Comics library and the young male appetite for hot superheroines. The Huntress (Batman and Catwoman's daughter), wheelchair-bound Oracle and psychic Dinah fight crime while looking slick and zinging the requisite self-conscious jokes ("Is your spider-sense tingling?" one Bird needles another). But flat performances and stock comic-book story lines keep Birds grounded...