Word: spills
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...Vietnam, U.S. troops bombed the land in order to save it. The same logic seems to have prevailed in the wake of the 11 million-gal. Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska last year. To help win multimillion-dollar court judgments against Exxon, federal and state officials have funded the deliberate killing of hundreds of healthy animals. The aim of all this destruction? To better estimate the destruction caused by the spill...
...Fish and Wildlife Service says the killings were approved only "after a lot of soul searching" in order to "develop a key piece of evidence." Following the spill, some 36,000 dead birds were recovered from the waters. But researchers estimate that the fatalities may have been far more numerous, between 100,000 and 300,000. The project seeks to demonstrate that the missing birds could have sunk to the ocean bottom, floated out to sea, or washed up on deserted shores. In separate studies, meanwhile, the state of Alaska killed more than 200 ducks and scores of mammals, including...
Although supposedly limited to federal lands, spill-over into private property seems, from all evidence, unavoidable. We can expect little else if our "war on drugs" escalates into a literal war, for few wars know boundaries and fewer still spare the civilians caught between enemy fire...
Everything about the Exxon Valdez oil spill was expensive, but last week it produced a few bargains. At an auction in Anchorage to sell off surplus equipment that Exxon used in cleanup operations, buyers bid on acres of items ranging from animal shampoo to mobile homes to microwave ovens. Four 18-ft. boats sold for $3,750. Other items were less than a steal: four used TV sets sold for a total of $2,000. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers International, a Vancouver, B.C., firm that bought the surplus gear from Exxon, collected $3.8 million on the first day of the four...
...Talkline/Kids Line in Elk Grove Village, Ill., ring softly every few minutes. Some of the youthful callers seem at first to be vulgar pranksters, out to make mischief with inane jokes and naughty language. But soon the voices on the line -- by turns wistful, angry, sad, desperate -- start to spill a stream of distress. Some divulge their struggles with alcohol or crack and their worries about school and sex. Others tell of their feelings of boredom and loneliness. Some talk of suicide. What connects them all, says Nancy Helmick, director of the two hot lines, is a sense of "disconnectedness...