Word: spill
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Pollution, like the recent oil spill in Russia, and the threat of global climate change have rudely reminded nations that fossil fuels carry with them heavy costs even when the purchase price is low. In the developing world, alternative forms of energy enjoy increasing cachet as governments wonder how to provide power for billions of people who lack electricity, knowing full / well that cities such as New Delhi, Beijing and Mexico City are choking under blankets of smog. Most important of all: renewables are beginning to earn respect in the marketplace. During the past decade, improvements in technology and manufacturing...
...northwestern Komi republic has dumped a huge amount of oil onto the Arctic landscape, contaminating wetlands and fouling waterways. An eyewitness reported that on one river the crude has formed a noxious slick measuring six to seven miles long, 14 yards wide and a yard deep. The spill's total volume, say U.S. Department of Energy officials, could be as much as 2 million bbl., some eight times the amount dumped in Alaska by the Exxon Valdez...
...Russian government commission is urging authorities to reverse anearlier decisionwhich recommended postponing cleanup of a massive oil spill until spring. The spill originated from a series of ruptures in a 31-mile pipeline that has leaked millions of gallons in Northern Russia in several accidents since 1988. Some of the petrochemicals have leaked into rivers that empty into the Arctic Ocean. If the cleanup is delayed until spring, the commission says, seasonal flooding will intensify the spill's impact. U.S. authorities have said as much as 80 million gallons of oil may have spilled, while Russian officials...
True enough, the Bible has a great deal to say on the subject of zippers or their A.D. 1 equivalent. Thou shalt not lust after your neighbor's wife or livestock. Thou shalt not spill the seed that was intended for your brother's widow. Thou shalt not divorce and, better yet, not even marry in the first place but wander around single and celibate, spreading the word...
...which, I could put on a tuxedo, stand under a running shower for a few moments and go as Dylan R. Nieman '97, the first-year who set off Hollis's fire suppression system with his tuxedo shirt and flooded the dorm. Or, wearing that same tux. I could spill a little beer on myself (enough to stink), act loud, drunk and obnoxious, and go as a member of one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs...