Achenblog: May 9, 2010 - May 15, 2010
The oil spill from the air
See this video, which I came across on Andrew Sullivan's blog. "Nothing but a red mass of floating goo..." "I find myself using the words hopeless. We can't stop this...." Meanwhile, on the deepwaterhorizonresponse website we see that the Coast...
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May 14, 2010; 7:58 PM ET |
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LeBron is LeGone
So the Cavs have emulated the Caps, and LeBron James has emulated Ovechkin: Kings of the regular season, chumps in the playoffs. With the Caps playing golf I had been searching for some other sport to fall asleep to and...
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May 14, 2010; 7:59 AM ET |
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BP releases oil leak videos [Updated]
This afternoon, BP released the first videos of the major leak at the bottom of the gulf. I'll embed the video link as soon as we process it. There are two clips: One shows a black plume that variably mixes...
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May 12, 2010; 5:18 PM ET |
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Where's the video of the gulf oil leak? [Updated w/fotos]
With the Challenger, there was the O-ring, brittle in the cold. With the Columbia, there was the foam that flew off the fuel tank and damaged some protective tile. With Deepwater Horizon? The cement looks like the culprit. Or was...
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May 11, 2010; 1:11 PM ET |
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Send in the golf balls [Updated]
[See end of item for update.] Send in the golf balls! That's the BP plan. Read our story today about Plans A through F in the gulf (Plan G is "Despair"). Excerpt: Engineers have developed at least a half-dozen distinct...
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May 11, 2010; 8:18 AM ET |
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Gulf oil spill operation a success, but the patient ...
In the gulf, things are going swimmingly from a bureaucratic perspective. That's the constant refrain of the Obama administration. It is the message detailed exhaustively in the administration's timeline, the one that talks of how quickly the administration responded to...
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May 10, 2010; 8:16 AM ET |
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The mysterious end of Deepwater Horizon
[My story in today's paper.] Deepwater Horizon was true to its name. The giant drilling rig, floating on submerged pontoons, set up shop 42 miles from land in the Gulf of Mexico. It was an award-winning rig that epitomized the...
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May 9, 2010; 8:46 AM ET |
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