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...Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has indicated that he will review oil and gas leases for Arctic waters, and for now, the sudden drop in the price of oil has blunted some of the impetus to drill. Although Salazar is in no rush to go fishing for petroleum, as soon as the world economy recovers, so will demand for oil and the pressure to drill offshore in Alaska. And that pressure will surely only grow as climate change causes the Arctic ice to recede. But that is precisely the lesson that must be remembered from the Exxon Valdez: that...
...Meanwhile, the brouhaha is bringing what some locals consider to be unwelcome attention to the laid-back canton. Melchior Looser, Appenzell's justice and police minister who spearheaded the proposed legislation, didn't return TIME's request for an interview but told a local newspaper that the sudden public interest in the naked-hikers issue is "absolutely ridiculous. I don't understand what all the fuss is about." (See pictures of the newest natural wonders of the world...
Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have discovered a new diagnostic test for a severe heart condition that now often goes undetected before causing sudden death...
Dodd, Sen. Christopher • adamant denial of any involvement by in adding of AIG bonus loophole • sudden memory of that AIG bonus loophole was, after all, added...
Fritzl, Josef • sudden realization of that decades-long imprisonment in fetid basement dungeon by of daughter of (and, as time passed, of three of the seven children she'd borne as a result of thousands of rapes by) was "cruel...