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Updated 6:46 p.m. ETAs rough seas generated by Hurricane Alex pushed more oil from the massive spill onto Gulf coast beaches and sidelined cleanup vessels, a member of Congress scolded BP for not including hurricanes or tropical storms in its disaster response plan.The waves churned up by the hurricane splattered beaches in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida with oil and tar balls.Rep. Edward Markey said Wednesday that BP s omission is yet another example of what the oil giant was not prepared to handle.The Massachusetts Democrat s comm
stanley italia ents came during a congressional hearing on a law to improve technology intended to prevent disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann
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stanley website .The hurricane was churning coastal waters across the oil-affected region on the Gulf of Mexico. Waves as high as 6 feet and winds over 25 mph were forecast through Thursday just off shore from the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.Special Section: Disaster in the GulfBad Weather Halts Spill ReliefRough Seas Halt Skimming Operations in GulfIn Louisiana, the storm pushed an oil patch toward Grand Isle and uninhabited Elmer s Island, dumping tar balls as big as apples on the beach. Cleanup workers were kept at bay by pouring rain and lightning that zigzagged across Tnhs New Orleans Man: I Wasn t Drunk
We ;re used to hearing Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales translated into modern English, but what do modern stories sound like in Middle English Medieval scholar Michael Livingston translates John Scalzi novel Old Man War into the language of Chaucer. Livingston took a section of Chapter Nine of Old Man War or Old Mennes Werre by Iohannis Scalzi , translated it, and recorded himself reading the translation. You can listen to and read the entire tr
stanley becher anslation on Livingston website; here a snippet of what it looks like: I can take a shot, Watson said, sighting over his boulder. Let me drill one of those things. I kan tak a
vaso stanley shote, quod Watson, lookynge right over his rokke. Graunte me striken oon. No, said Viveros, our corporal. Their shield is still up. You ;d jus
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