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    Energy

    Slideshow • environment • Science & Technology • ISSUE 46•17 • May 18, 2010
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    • Sunken Oil Tanker Will Be Habitat For Marine Life, Shell Executives Say With Straight Face

      HOUSTON, TX—A Shell press release read without a trace of irony claims the Global Explorer will host countless fish and marine vegetation.
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    • SOLOPEC Nations Warn Sun's Output May Fall Short Of Demand

      RIYADH, MUHAMMAD ARABIA—The governing board of the Solar Output Power Exporting Countries announced Monday that, in spite of attempts to raise production levels, increased global-power consumption may begin to outstrip the sun's output by early next year.
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    • Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

      EARTH—Gore's son Kal-Al is faster than a speeding Prius, stronger than the EPA's Superfund program, and able to leap mountains of red tape in a single bound.
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    • China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter

      China revels in a UN report that found it has the highest smog levels in the world, a sure sign of China’s progress and prosperity.
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    • U.S. Ice Cubes Melting At Alarming Rate

      WASHINGTON, DC—High summer temperatures and ever-increasing levels of U.S. beverage consumption are causing ice cubes across the nation to melt at
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    • Green-Conscious GE Develops Hybrid Lightbulb

      FAIRFIELD, CT—The bulb's four-cylinder engine could produce up to 80 percent less global-warming pollution than conventional gas-powered bulbs.
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    • Prohibitively High Rocket-Fuel Prices Bring Mideast Crisis To Standstill

      BEIRUT, LEBANON—Lines at the pump extended for miles as frustrated Hezbollah soldiers waited for hours to fill up their Katushyas and Qassam-2s.
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    • New Anger-Powered Cars May Revolutionize The Way We Drive

      DETROIT—Drawing motive power from the unbridled temper of drivers, road-rage-fueled cars may change the way Americans drive.
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    • Oil Executives March On D.C.

      The hundreds of executives, majority share-holders, and oil barons say they've been shut out too long.
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    • Massive Tag Body Spray Slick Spreading From Jersey Shore

      TOMS RIVER, NJ—Environmentalists fear that the noxious spill could offset Mid-Atlantic breeding patterns for years to come.
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