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Friday, September 03, 2010   22:11 GMT

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill's 30-Year Legacy
Matthew Berger

WASHINGTON - A surprisingly small number of scientists have studied the impacts of the oil spill resulting from the 1979 blowout at the Ixtoc I oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Wes Tunnell, who first studied the spill's effects in July and August of 1980 and has returned many times since, is one of the few exceptions.
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Further Victims Revealed in DRC Mass Rapes Case
Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS - The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month's raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today.
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COLOMBIA
US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record
Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - As a new administration takes over in Bogotá, some groups are hoping for change in the human rights record of Colombia - and that the U.S. will use its clout in the country to ensure that change occurs.
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In Focus: Iraq
 
Economy and Trade
>   Billion Dollar Audit Missed by Pentagon Watchdog
>   Sao Tome and Principe at Oil Bonanza Crossroads
>   Pakistani Officials Seek Funds, Debt Relief in Washington
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Politics
>   Further Victims Revealed in DRC Mass Rapes Case
> COLOMBIA  US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record
>   Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth
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Civil Society
> COLOMBIA  US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record
>   Hope Persists for Jailed Health Workers in Philippines
> Q&A  "Women Are the First to Cook and the Last to Eat"
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Environment
>   Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill's 30-Year Legacy
>   Environmentalists Push For Coal-ash Regulation
>   Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth
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Development
> COLOMBIA  US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record
> US-MIDEAST  Light At End of Tunnel Elusive Despite Obama's Efforts
>   Sao Tome and Principe at Oil Bonanza Crossroads
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Human Rights
>   Further Victims Revealed in DRC Mass Rapes Case
> COLOMBIA  US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record
>   Secret 'Kill Lists' Fly in the Face of US and Int'l Law
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Health
> US  Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Factory Farming
> ENERGY  Is Fracking Even Worse Than Drilling?
>   Hope Persists for Jailed Health Workers in Philippines
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Media & Communications
> US-CUBA  Radio, TV Marti Seen as Bust
>   New Software Could Outwit Tehran's Censors
> SOUTH AFRICA  Teaching Girls to Report on the World Cup
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Multilateralism Under Siege
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Nuclear Weapons
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 Environmentalists Push For Coal-ash Regulation
 Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth
 Secret 'Kill Lists' Fly in the Face of US and Int'l Law
 Billion Dollar Audit Missed by Pentagon Watchdog
 US-MIDEAST: Light At End of Tunnel Elusive Despite Obama's Efforts
 FBI: No Probable Cause Required For Surveillance
 Media Didn't Buy Petraeus Command's Story of Low Taliban Morale
 Q&A: Capital Punishment in Canada, Revisited
 US: Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Factory Farming
 Groups Praise U.S. Rights Report as Good First Step
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 More about the IPS cast of writers
Adrianne Appel
Ngoc Nguyen
Lucy Komisar
Bill Berkowitz
William Fisher
Stephen Leahy
Jim Lobe
Gareth Porter
Haider Rizvi
Abid Aslam
Thalif Deen
Helena Cobban
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 BRAZIL: Sugarcane's Electrical Potential Goes to Waste
 FILM-CUBA: "I Fought for This, But Not Just to Be a Housewife"
 KENYA: Monitoring Antiretroviral Intake Among Children
 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill's 30-Year Legacy
 /CORRECTED REPEAT*/AFRICA: Woman Researcher Tackles Aflatoxin Poisoning
 Price Hikes Trigger Mozambique Protests
 East Europe Takes to Too Many Cars
 EGYPT: Brotherhood Struggles Against Shut Doors
 CHINA: Bigger Bite Needed into Appetite for Shark Fin Soup
 ASIA: Japan Watches As China Passes It By
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Bush at War Part II