Word: spills
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...aspire to make chicken soup like Mom or eggplant like Emeril Lagasse?often requires more guidance than a classic cookbook can provide. Now, rather than shell out for lessons, you can hop online and learn to slice, spice and saut? like a cordon bleu. Just remember not to spill your b?chamel on the keyboard...
...year is staggering. While corporate critics cavil, shareholders see a company simply doing what companies are supposed to do--earning money. Given Exxon's riches, though, the 32,677 claimants in a 17-year-old suit pursuing a $4.5 billion damage award from Exxon for its 1989 Valdez oil spill are puzzled: Why doesn't the world's largest and most profitable oil company just pay the victims and move on? Exxon recently argued its third appeal of the award handed out by a jury in 1994 as punishment for the Valdez spill, the largest in U.S. history, which dumped...
...many of the fishermen living in Cordova, Alaska, near the spill's epicenter say the initial compensation has hardly made a dent in their long-term losses, estimated by plaintiffs' lawyers at $700 million. R.J. Kopchak, 58, a commercial fisherman in Cordova for 32 years, says he has suffered about $660,000 in forgone income since the spill, as a result of lost sales and the devaluation of his herring-fishing permits. "I've struggled to make a dime, let alone a profit, and these guys are making billions of bucks," says Kopchak. He and many other fishermen...
...thing," she says. "They don't see how to break it down. But if you understand your stain and what it's made of, you can work out what will get rid of it." Take red wine. "Wine is an acid. Bicarb soda is an alkali. So when you spill red wine on the carpet, you mop up as much as you can, then sprinkle on bicarb soda. The alkali negates the acid. You'll see straight away the stain change from red to pale gray as the pH swaps over and the pigment starts to break down...
Back in Prudhoe Bay, the battle lines are clearer. Braving temperatures as low as 40°F below zero, cleanup crews have contained the spill and are trucking in fresh snow to absorb whatever oil can't be vacuumed up. BP hopes to recover 90% of the lost crude, which it will funnel back into the pipeline and pump to the port of Valdez for sale on the open market...