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AP NEW DELHI - The notorious Exxon Valdez tanker, responsible for one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history two decades ago, has been bought by an Indian company, almost certainly to be scrapped for its steel and spare parts.Best Oasis Ltd. would not disclose the price or purpose of its purchase, but it buys old ships solely to dismantle them, reuse salvageable material, and discard the rest.On March 24, 1989, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into A
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The International Space Station orbits the Earth at 8 kilometers per second鈥攂ut it tough to visualize just how fast that is. When you think about it in terms of how far the thing moves during the course of a song you
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