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1. Covering Wall Street’s financial reform fallout
(Money/Economy)

... waivers for gulf projects since the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. At CNN on Sunday, Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen was assuring Candy Crowley that work with BP on that spill thingy ...

2. India plane crash kills 159
(World/International)

... only a handful of lucky survivors, and many sustained burn injuries. Some survivors said they heard a loud explosion after the plane touched down. One survivor told television reporters he managed to ...

3. ‘Robin Hood’ with Russell Crowe: A movie review
(Entertainment/Movies)

... He's crafty with a bow and arrow — enough to orchestrate an explosion on a French castle complete with 21st century pyrotechnics — but, unlike past versions of the character, isn't a friend of the king. ...

4. ‘Please Give' a film for those interested in people
(Entertainment/Movies)

... who end up comforting her. "Please Give" has been well received on the festival circuit at Sundance, Berlin and lately close to home at the Tribeca Film Festival. It's not for those looking for explosions, ...

5. Gulf oil spill couldn’t have come at a better time for those against offshore drilling
(U.S./Nation)

BY MATTHEW BERGER IPS NEWS AGENCY WASHINGTON — As oil seeps into the environmentally and economically critical Gulf of Mexico following an explosion on a rig there two weeks ago, some groups are saying ...

6. Wake up, N.J.: Self-regulating leads to disaster
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and the West Virginia coal mining explosion are proof of this. Through privatization and deregulation we have allowed companies to self-regulate. In both cases lax enforcement and letting companies self-certify ...

7. Rutgers disaster expert Lee Clarke says BP “overpromised,” which led to Gulf oil spill
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... of Sociology at Rutgers University. Clarke is also the author of books on disaster preparedness — and the lack of it. Clarke commented May 2 on the oil pouring into the ocean after an explosion damaged ...

8. Obama tries to calm coastal states on offshore drilling
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... faulty"cementing" work by contractor Halliburton — pumping cement to plug pipeline holes — may have caused the explosion, fire and sinking of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon, which left 11 workers missing ...

9. N.J. offshore drilling lacks support at federal hearing
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... the Gulf of Mexico dominated the hearing. An April 21 explosion and fire sank an oil rig leased to BP, leaving 11 workers missing and presumed dead and sending 42,000 gallons of crude oil a day into the ...

10. Public hearings on Obama's offshore oil drilling plan scheduled for Newark
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... offshore drilling; New Jersey's economy will be hit just as hard. The state's coastal tourism industry is a $34 billion a year industry.'' Tittel said the oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana ...

11. Tribeca Film Festival looks to re-invent itself
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Hollywood has sought safety in 3-D glasses and multiple explosions, whatever that approach may do to quality. It's been even trickier on the edges. The economic downturn has sapped the private equity ...

12. Explosion and fire shake things up in Franklin
(N.J./State)

A ball of fire lit up a quiet Franklin Township area in Somerset County on Monday. A construction accident severed a gas line, resulting in an explosion on County Route 518 and Old Georgetown Road. ...

13. Time to address rescuing Social Security and Medicare
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and widespread — Medicare. The baby boomer explosion will of course bear a burden on that program. Any presidential commission must recognize the need to reprioritize the national budget. We cannot afford ...

14. Investing in emerging market mutual funds
(Money/Economy)

... With political gridlock in Washington, the results of financial reform unknown, no cure in sight for the home foreclosure explosion, uncertainty about the effects of health reform, federal and state budget ...

15. Akon music video causes attack on MTV in Sri Lanka (VIDEO)
(World/International)

... anniversary of a beloved Buddhist monk. Despite the protests, the concert went ahead and toward the end, a hand grenade explosion left two concertgoers dead. The culprits have never been indentified. The ...

16. Oscar Roundtable: Handicapping the Academy Awards
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Heart," I'll be happy if Jeff Bridges gets his Oscar – the Dude abides. Like Anthony, I'm glad to see Jeremy Renner in the running, since "The Hurt Locker" is a character study with explosions. But I'm ...

17. Journey to Africa: Uganda, Rwanda … and in search of mountain gorillas
(Life/Style)

... volcanic interaction with the bottom of the lake would spark a methane explosion, spawning a tsunami and releasing suffocating gases. According to Wikipedia, "Analysis of Lake Kivu's geological history ...

18. Stephen Rea stars in Sam Shepard’s latest play ‘Ages of the Moon’
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  Later on the men tussle, punctuated by a typically Shepard-esque explosion that's very funny. And as afternoon fades into night, Ames and Byron await a lunar eclipse and quietly talk again about ...

19. Internet’s effect on language debated
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... explosion of electronic communication. "I think that text messaging has made students believe that it's far more acceptable than it actually is to just make screamingly atrocious spelling and grammatical ...

20. Eric Aronson: Spending cuts should only be the beginning
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of years of policy neglect, and the explosion of government spending during past periods of economic prosperity. For example, there is no economic justification for the enormous increases in the State ...