One of the striking controversies about the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout has been alarm raised about chemical dispersants used to hold spilled crude oil deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Prospects for oil’s direct harm to the environment, the economy, and coastal society were immediately obvious.

We scoured the billion dollar project for practical solutions ready for wider use in an era of global warming.

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New Orleans (AP) - Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a

A Libyan aid ship originally bound for the Gaza
Strip has been diverted to a port in Egypt after the Israeli navy warned
the vessel against trying to break an Israeli blockade on the
Palestinian coastal territory.

Update on Hyatt Workers By Jones ---- On August 31st of 2009, Hyatt hotels in Boston fired
98 employees in the housekeeping department. Upon termination, bosses gave workers
“Severance Package” of two weeks pay plus one week’s pay for the first five years an
employee worked with Hyatt. On the way out the door they asked them to hand in their
nametags.

Does the system we live under, capitalism, offer enough scope for achieving lasting
solutions to all the problems it causes? Of course, some improvements are made and some
problems are alleviated. Yet new kinds of problem also arise in a society which is
changing rapidly, constantly seeking new ways to make a profit.