July 31, 2010 – U.S. military death tolls in Afghanistan are on the rise this summer. July has seen sixty-six American casualties. This has surpassed the previous record high set last month..
Right now there are approximately 95,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. By the end of the next month the total is anticipated [...]
July 23, 2010 – As tropical storm Bonnie, the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, accelerates towards the Gulf of Mexico and Florida, BP has decided to delay its attempt to permanently plug up its wrecked Marcondo well that has been spewing oil into the Gulf since April 20.
The company said that high [...]
July 13, 2010 – BP announced on Monday that they successfully attached a new cap to the Deep Water Horizon well that has been gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20.
On Tuesday they are going to start a 6- to 48-hour test which will close the cap and effectively shut the well. [...]
July 12, 2010 – On Thursday researchers doubled their estimates on the amount of oil that has spewing into the Gulf of Mexico after BP’s oil rig exploded in April.
They now say that 1.7 million gallons per day – more than forty thousand barrels – have been gushing into the Gulf for weeks.
On Friday Gulf [...]
July 8, 2010 – On Wednesday a BP executive told NBC and The Wall Street Journal that under the most favorable conditions the well that has been spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico since April could be killed as early as July 27.
Hearing the projection of an earlier kill date, a senior Obama administration [...]
July 6, 2010 – A new survey of 2,500 Australians indicates that an alarmingly large number have become victims of online identity theft. One out of every ten people surveyed said they lost, on average, $1,000 each.
If the Galaxy Research for VeriSign survey accurately reflects the entire population it means that more than 1.3 [...]
July 4, 2010 – Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson took her sixth trip to the Gulf and her first trip to Florida since the BP oil rig exploded in April.
Although the beaches weren’t closed she was greeted on Saturday by oil warnings that are posted in Escambia County.
When reporters asked Jackson if she would [...]
July 1, 2010 – Every year tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs are laid along Alabama and Florida’s gulf coast.
This year BPs oil spill threatens to poison them and thousands may die.
However, the Georgia Wildlife Rescue Association is aiming not to let that happen. According to George Powell, a member of the association [...]
July 1, 2010 – On Wednesday the Bank of England said that the United Kingdom could be on the verge of another credit crunch and it expects that the number of loans that lenders will make available will plunge through September 2010.
Lenders are concerned that they won’t be able to get the money they need [...]
June 29, 2010 – Concurrent with Google’s retreat from Mainland China, Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU) has completed its initial marketing phase in China/ It now aims to bolster its search engine marketing in its attempt entice more small and medium size customers to use this search service provider.
Baidu began its current effort in [...]
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