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NEW ORLEANS, July 30 (UPI) -- Oceanographers and conservationists say the Gulf of Mexico has been staggered by man-made pollution since long before the Deepwater Horizon oil leak began.
Experts aren't optimistic about the future health of the gulf and say it has to do more with decades of contamination rather than the undersea geyser sparked by the loss of the massive offshore drilling rig, The New York Times said Friday.
"This has been the nation's sacrifice zone and has been for 50-plus years," said Aaron Viles of the Gulf Restoration Network. "What we're seeing right now with BP's crude is just a very photogenic representation of that."
The Times said countless smaller leaks and spills from the offshore energy industry coupled with constant agricultural runoff from the Mississippi River watershed have steadily contaminated the gulf for years.
Experts said that huge amounts of money and strict regulation would be needed to nurse the gulf back to health. However, the gulf states are seen as being both limited in their own financial resources and unwilling to lean on the region's important petroleum industry.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The late Steve Jobs, co-founder of the U.S. computer giant Apple, had faults in his personal life but was a business visionary, associates told the FBI.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
Macaulay Culkin is in "perfectly good health," his publicist said after the former child star was photographed looking gaunt and disheveled in New York.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The Israeli government plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas terminal with a sea-based defense radar system off its Mediterranean coast while forming a naval force to protect its rich offshore gas fields against terrorist attack.
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BREDA, Netherlands, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
A Dutch collector has said he's willing to sell his collection of rare liquors -- which he calls the world's largest -- for $8 million.
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