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Explaining The Roller Coaster Ride Of The Super Rich

WSJ | Robert Frank | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Volatility, Debt, Video, Wealth, Booms, Busts, Top 1 Percent, Volker Recession, Technology, Upper Class, Jonathan A. Parker, Business News

By Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal The Saturday Essay on the rise of the "High-Beta Rich" and growing volatility of the 1 percent generat...

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Hoping for the Best As Shrimpers Prepare to go to Sea

Jessica Lass | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Bp, Gulfspill, Louisiana, Shrimping, Clean, Booms, Venice, Green News
Jessica Lass

Tonight as I was speaking with the shrimpers I’ve gotten to know this week, I could tell they were leery about going out to fight the oil spill ...

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Doomed Pelicans: British Petroleum Neglecting Booms in Pelican Rookery

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Booms, River of Oil, Pelicans, Bp, Corexit, Toxic, Queen Bess Island, British Petroleum, Brown Pelican, Federal Regulations, Grand Terre Island, Oil Catastrophe, Louisiana, Booms, Skimming, Oil, Oil Sheen, Dispersants, Grand Isle, Wildlife Management, Gulf of Mexico, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Photos of oil-soaked suffocating pelicans drifting in pools of oil from the British Petroleum oil disaster have become a heartbreaking symbol of the e...

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Oil Spill Tar Patties Wash Ashore In Alabama, As Angry Governor Blasts Coast Guard Decisions

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill, Tar Patties, Alabama, Louisiana, Tar Balls, Missisippi, Bob Riley, Beaches, Booms, Dauphin Island, Oil, Florida, Coast Guard, Green News

MOBILE, Ala. - Alabama Gov. Bob Riley is angry about U.S. Coast Guard decisions he says have left parts of the Gulf Coast vulnerable to pollution from...

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Blood and Oil are Two Things You Don't Want on Your Hands

Jessica Lass | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Oil, Gulfspill, Tarballs, Booms, Southpass, Venice, Green News
Jessica Lass

It wasn't my brightest idea, but after finding oil for the first time, my reaction was to touch it. It stained my fingertips red and made my hands sticky until I could properly wash them and also smelled like a gas station, which is probably obvious.

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