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...Politics: • Endorsed Bob Dole in 1996, Ralph Nader in 2000, John Kerry in 2004, and Obama in 2008 • Has called himself a libertarian and supports the death penalty, but usually espouses liberal views • Got into hot water after Sept. 11 for saying, on Politically Incorrect: "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (The show was cancelled several months later...
Abandoned ships wreak havoc on the marine ecosystem long after they've sunk. Decaying wreckages leach toxic chemicals like petroleum products and PCBs that remain in the water harming or destroying sea life and potentially enter the food chain, eventually getting ingested by humans. Sometimes dead watercraft foster the growth of new sea life that threatens the pre-existing local ecosystem. On Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, a population explosion of corallimorph, an aggressive creature similar to anemones and coral, killed almost all the coral growing around a long-line fishing vessel that sank in 1991, according...
...play, Harvard got off to an early lead in the poor conditions. The Crimson seemed to be cruising to yet another tournament win, until the weather added some unfriendly complications. With the Harvard golfers on the back nine, the course was deemed unplayable due to puddles of standing water on the greens. The round was halted, and the Crimson players went to sleep Saturday night unsure of what was to come Sunday. When the players came to the tee the following morning, they were informed that the first round scores had been wiped out and the tournament had been adjusted...
...Orleans. He found his answer while sorting through old clothes at a Houston site for evacuees. As he searched for pants to fit a bone-thin man standing 6-ft. 5, the man told his story: he'd been trapped with a group of elderly without food or water. Every day for four days he swam out a second-story window to a nearby store, dragging supplies back through the polluted waters. Lindahl was transfixed by the man's quiet heroism. And that's when it clicked. He would get survivors to interview other survivors, to keep their experiences alive...
...YouTube, Palin is seen rising to introduce herself as Zardari, dressed in one of his signature flashy tailored suits, enters. As custom demands, the two grip each other's hands and shake them animatedly before the cameras. But it is the remarks that follow that got Zardari into hot water back home...