Word: spills
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Thus stain-resistant trousers. The idea of pants as a bib is one whose time has come. Levi's Dockers brand has unveiled its Go Khaki with Stain Defender line. Treated with DuPont Teflon, these trousers allow the wearer to spill any "oil or water-based liquid" (e.g., beer, salad dressing) and have it bead up and roll off. Earlier this year, Lee introduced its Performance Khaki, which uses Nano-Care, microscopic whiskers that repel spills...
...thicken the already highly viscous fuel oil to the consistency of tar, it is unlikely to move anywhere soon. No plans have thus been announced--at least not yet--to try to recover the tanker's 18 million gallons of oil. If the contents leak to the surface, the spill will be twice the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster
...recent bombings in Bali and the Moscow theater assault, intelligence sources tell TIME, U.S. agents paid a visit to one of bin Laden's senior operatives, Ramzi Binalshibh, held for interrogation at a safe house somewhere overseas. They played the 3-minute tape for Binalshibh, who has begun to spill secrets about al-Qaeda's inner workings since he was picked up last September in Pakistan. After listening to his old master pray for vengeance upon the U.S. and its allies, the terrorist let his guards know that what they had was authentic, a proof of life...
...some of these investigators came to suspect that there was more to the story than the FBI had found. The backroom dispute over the vigor of the FBI's investigation, and Congressional displeasure at being denied access to an FBI informant in the San Diego Arab community, has now spilled into public view. The leaks have thrown the FBI and Justice Department on the defensive. Now the spill-over from this long running dispute has put additional pressure on the already tense U.S.-Saudi relationship...
...area. Spanish officials, who have banned fishing from El Ferrol and A Coruna in the north to Cape Finisterre in the south, estimated last week's damages at $42 million and climbing. Now the worry is that fierce storms still churning in the Atlantic will push the spill's other oil slicks toward the shore. "They call this the Death Coast. It couldn't be more appropriately named," says Juan Antonio Toja, head of the fishermen's cooperative in the village of Laxe. Long a graveyard for ships, the area has now seen three major oil disasters since 1976. Toja...