Word: spills
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...means as effective as the company has proclaimed. Many killer whales have vanished from Prince William Sound, while the social structure of the remaining groups appears to be breaking down. Several large colonies of murres, a seabird, have not produced any chicks in the years since the spill. Harlequin ducks, black oyster catchers and other animals have been contaminated by eating oil-drenched mussels, and sea-otter populations are hemorrhaging, literally and figuratively -- a side effect of hydrocarbon poisoning...
...amount of money could ever fully compensate for the havoc wreaked by the Valdez spill, but the record $1.025 billion in fines and damages imposed on Exxon by a federal judge last October should have provided the state and federal governments with an extraordinary opportunity to take further protective measures, assess remaining problems and mollify resentful citizens. Instead, the deal has touched off a chorus of outrage from residents and environmentalists, who wanted a minimum of $2 billion, and has ignited a fierce debate over how best to spend the sum. Says biologist Rick Steiner of the University of Alaska...
Unfortunately for Alaska, the windfall is far less than it seems. After deducting the sums owed to federal and state governments for past cleanup, litigation expenses and damage assessment, Alaska can expect just $635 million. How to spend it is the official business of the six-member oil spill trustee council, which includes the Alaska attorney general along with representatives from two state and three federal departments. The body has already come under fire. Alaskans claim that Washington's representatives are watching out for the Bush Administration's interests and that the council is unreceptive to the views...
Questions about admissions, and about Harvard in general, spill out of the designated lectures and into summer school entryways. Questions like "are the courses really this easy--to which we usually reply, no," says summer school proctor Jeffrey R. Kling...
...establish important legal precedents. The hearings raise issues about Yeltsin's power to rule by decree. They will expose the party's checkered past and pose painful questions about retribution and punishment in future trials. And they could provoke a surge of resentment among the party faithful that could spill into the streets -- and heighten anxieties about another putsch attempt...