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...clustered more closely together, with drilling done laterally below the surface--reducing the number of installations on the tundra. Pipelines are now built 5 ft. above the surface to allow animals to pass beneath. A truck leaking a pint of transmission fluid is treated as an oil spill, reported as such and laboriously cleaned up. Even so, there are limits. "Drilling for oil is an industrial process," concedes Ronnie Chappell, the main spokesman for BP Amoco on the North Slope. "Some things you can't get rid of--like pipelines." The oil industry by its very nature is rugged...
...spill things on my chin, what should...
...fell sick in 1996, and her employers sent her to a private doctor who couldn't diagnose an illness. He tested her blood and found she was HIV positive. "I wish I'd died right then," she says, as tears spill down her sunken cheeks. "I asked the doctor, 'Have you got medicine?' He said no. I said, 'Can't you keep me alive?'" The doctor could do nothing and sent her away. "I couldn't face the word," she says. "I couldn't sleep at night. I sat on my bed, thinking, praying. I did not see anyone...
BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY Galapagos bird endangered by tanker oil spill. Man takes an evolutionary step backward...
...home offering "up to a million" in exchange for her story. She says she declined. But as Stanford notes, there are plenty of disgruntled former Rainbow staff members around who "hate Jesse and want to destroy him" so much they didn't need cash as an incentive to spill what they knew. It was Jackson, in his arrogance, who provided them with the squalid tale that may bring him down. To appropriate one of Jackson's slogans, his time has gone...