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| http://www.rotarysouth.org/michaelkors-com.html The government admitted Tuesday its tries to clear the air in smog-filled urban areas could possibly have backfired. The fuel additive MTBE that worked so well to reduce smog levels actually found themselves polluting the groundwater supply, reports CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes. As a result of an advisory panel report that the additive gets into drinking water, the Environmental Protection Agency reversed course and urged a prompt and significant rollback in use of the chemical. "We did find between five to Ten percent of the water supplies in areas that have been sampled, showing some detection of MTBE within the water supply," says panel member Daniel Greenbaum.In Santa Monica, Calif., it contaminated over fifty percent the water supply. "We've been managing this nightmare for four years," says Gil Borboa of the city's water division.The methanol-based additive is used in reformulated gasoline in 16 states. Federal research shows the compound causes tumors in rats and can also do so in humans. A college of California study figured MTBE has affected at least 10,000 groundwater sites inside the state.Once released into the ground through small cracks in service station or oil company pipes, MTBE is so soluble that it's quickly distributed around the groundwater supply. Mark Feldman actually had MTBE leaking into his home in Ny. "I would start picking up this gasoline-type odor right beyond your front door of my house," he states. Recently, California announced it would ban MTBE, and Maine officials got out of the "reformulated gasoline" program because of concern over the additive.Producers warn that gasoline prices will rise should they be forced to use alternative methods to produce cleaner burning gas.Terry Wigglesworth from the Oxygenated Fuels Association says, "We'll be forced to rely on imports. We'll be forced to depend upon physical changes to refineries and distribution systems. It is only one result: higher gasoline prices at the pump."While many see the EPA announcement because the first step toward a nationwide ban, Greenbaum says MTBE will not yet pose health concerns. "This isn't an issue of health and safety," Greenbaum said. "But once you cannot use a water supply when your consumers will not drink it, that is the huge loss to a community."
http://www.ahlborn-kirchenorgeln.com/uggaustralia.html Al Qaeda suicide bombers will attack more Saudi oil facilities, the terror group purportedly threatened Saturday within an Internet statement that claimed responsibility to the foiled attack on the Abiqaiq plant in eastern Saudi Arabia.Two suicide bombers experimented with drive cars packed with explosives into Abiqaiq, the earth's largest oil processing facility, on Friday afternoon, but security officers opened fire and the vehicles exploded outside the gates, killing the bombers and fatally wounding two guards.The guards died in hospital, the lining Ministry said Saturday in a statement published on the internet site of the official Saudi Press Agency.Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi quickly said the attack "did not affect operations" understanding that exports continued to flow. However, crude oil futures spiked more than $2 a barrel amid fears militants would again target the vital industry, CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason reports. Light sweet crude for April delivery surged up to $63.25 a barrel before settling at $62.91, a boost of $2.37 on the Ny Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude futures for April delivery jumped $2.06 to $62.60 on London's ICE Futures exchange."This operation belongs to a series of operations that al Qaeda is carrying out against the crusaders and the Jews to stop their plundering of Muslim wealth," said a statement posted on a militant Web site within the name of "al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula," since the Saudi branch of the terror network calls itself.The statement would not acknowledge that the attack was foiled. In fact, it claimed that the two "heroic holy warriors" were able to enter Abiqaiq."There are more like them who are racing toward martyrdom and eager to combat the enemies of god, the Jews, the crusaders and their stooges, the renegade rulers" of Arab countries, the posting said."You will see things that will make you happy, god willing," concluded the statement.Al Qaeda had long threatened to address Saudi Arabia's oil plants, but Friday's was initially it actually attempted to do so. Previously militants associated with al Qaeda had killed foreigners working in the industry, but not at oil facilities.Friday's assault suggested the militants were following a tactics of insurgents in neighboring Iraq, who've repeatedly targeted the oil industry. no previous page next 1/2
http://fotoristo.com/uggbootsonsalewarm.html The world's next would-be space tourist, Lance Bass of the hugely popular boy band 'N Sync, said Friday that leading Russian space doctors had cleared him for any flight to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket, a journey he hopes to make this fall between tours.But Bass has yet to get an official approval from the Russian space agency, Rosaviakosmos. "I never have had a formal proposal. It is precisely what we're waiting on," he stated. "Nothing is certain, I think, with any mission, up to week before it goes up, before they find the final crew." Bass, 23, shrugged off questions on dangers of space flight. ``I like to be positive, I'm an optimist,'' he told a news conference in Moscow. ``I know physically I'm able to do it, I know mentally I'm able to do it.'' Bass said he and another would-be space tourist, former NASA official Lori Garver, had spent weeks passing grueling tests to qualify for the mission with 48 doctors certifying their fitness at Russia's premier space medicine center, the Institute for Medical and Biological Problems. Bass was discovered to have an irregular heartbeat, even though it was not necessarily a hindrance with a space mission, he had it corrected by way of a medical procedure back in the United States.Bass said he'd been dreaming about going to space since childhood and voiced hope that his mission would serve educational purposes by way of a documentary he would make in space. "We're doing final negotiations today with a major network to air this," he explained. "It makes me feel like an excellent spokesperson for these space programs."If given the stamp of approval, Bass will be the third man to pay his distance to space aboard a Russian craft. Millionaire Dennis Tito took over as first space tourist this past year, followed in April by South African Internet magnate Mark Shuttleworth. Both were widely reported to have paid $20 million, enough to cover the entire cost of a manned space launch.Bass, the reduced voice of the five-member 'N Sync, said the space stint would not interrupt his recording schedule. The audience finished their latest concert tour many weeks ago. "It's amazing how perfect the timing was. We'd just finished a tour and that we were going to take the rest of the year off," he stated, adding the other members had been supportive. The band has proved one of the primary pop sensations since 1998 when their debut album "'N Sync" sold 10 million copies. Their March 2000 album "No Strings Attached" was the very first in U.S. chart history money than 2 million copies rolling around in its first week of sales.
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http://bottesuggpascher.physicianvacancies.com The Hancock Medical Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. is really a mile inland. Still, Hurricane Katrina left it chaos.As CBS News correspondent and The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith reports, the once-spotless operating room is covered in slop, as is much of all of those other building.But they're still open for business."People were cutting themselves whilst the water was three, four feet deep," Dr. Sean Appleyard tells Smith. "They were cut by debris we were holding trying to swim through; attempting to escape through attics when they got trapped in houses that have been, essentially, submerged by what, essentially, was a tidal wave that that hit el born area."When Katrina hit, the hospital staff performed heroically, Smith says."Water was rising inside the hospital. Three feet within Twenty or so minutes," he says. "And rushing to acquire patients from the first floor up to the second floor, with the elevators stalling, the generator bailing, would be a nightmare; and doing this all in the dark because, once all of the power was out, every one of the hallways were just pitch-black."Nurse Michaeline Smyth says, "The windows held practically. They just leaked around. Then this water started rushing in from the doors. We thought the windows were gonna break."We saw fish. We were treated to snakes, turtles floating by right beyond your windows while we were hoping to get the patients up. We got up to the second floor and (the water) got up to the awnings of the second floor. And we couldn't know if it was going to stop you aren't."All day long on Wednesday, the hospital's patients were evacuated along with other locations, because Hancock, in its current state, can't stay open for a long time.Katrina threw everything she could at the Hancock staff, but she didn't win."We have our way of life," Smyth says, "and I have the lives of my friends here, and we saved all the patients, and I couldn't be any prouder."Smith says a number of the Hancock staffers have been working non-stop since Sunday. One even gave his shoes girl who walked to the facility in their own bare feet with nothing though the clothes on her back.
http://taniaroxborogh.com/uggclassicmini-uk.html In car-crazy California, motorists are doing the unthinkable: leaving their cars and taking to the streets to protest the buying price of gasoline. CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports."How will you buy milk for your children and gas for your car to go to work on?" yelled one protestor.Gas prices are high and going higher this holiday weekend. The American Automobile Association says gasoline prices jumped by nearly 12 cents per gallon during the past two weeks -- the steepest increase since 1990.The nation's average price of self-serve regular unleaded gasoline increased 11.8 cents since March 16 to succeed in $1.088 per gallon, the AAA said.California was hardest hit. Throughout the last month, prices rose about 40 cents a gallon. At some stations, the price tag on gas is almost two dollars a gallon."I'm furious," was the response of one motorist. "I paid 93 cents a gallon just a couple of weeks ago.""I'm going to go broke just driving around," another said.Earlier this year, there were price wars throughout the country. What is causing the rise now? There is not really any one factor, analysts say. The oil-producing countries collectively cut production a few weeks ago, which had an impact. Also, fires at refineries in northern California reduce supplies.Gasoline dealer Alan Cherko blames it on greed. "Oil companies have experienced a bad year," he was quoted saying. "I think it was a time they may get the prices where normally they ought to be."Cherko is raising his prices daily, in response to the price his supplier is charging him. Still, he thinks things will relax soon.In the meantime, one protestor wondered, "What am i going to do? What are we Americans likely to do?"There has been a call for a National Gas-Out Day, where drivers would will not buy fuel on one day as protest. The movement is being spread on the information superhighway, by e-mail. Others think government entities should put the brakes on rising prices.Meanwhile, California will get a break this weekend. Some oil tankers are being diverted, bringing their loads here. However that means taking gas business places, which will affect prices elsewhere. Dealers are reportedly already raising the prices across the country. The following are average price hikes in america:New England: up 7.2 cents to $1.054.Mid-Atlantic: up 8.8 cents to $1.032.Great Lakes: up 17 cents to $1.123.Midwest: up 11.9 cents to $1.042.Southwest: up 14.5 cents to $1.087.
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