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Health and Wealth Seminar Takes the Gulf Coast by Storm - Optimistic
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Since Hurricane Ivan and the BP oil spill, many Gulf Coast businesses have rallied with the goal of exponential growth and profits in mind. The May 23 & 24 Small Biz Strategies Boot Camp, hosted by www.BizEventPlanners.com, hopes to provide key

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Cosco Busan oil-spill pilot trying to sail in San Francisco Bay again
Enterprise-Record
Cota was piloting the Cosco Busan when it struck a bridge support spilling 53000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay. The shipping company that owned the container ship claims the government is at fault for licensing a pilot with a history of

Obama's preference for talks with Iran faces test
Boston.com
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's preferred path to end the Iranian nuclear standoff faces a stern test this week when world powers sit down with Iran in another bid to press it to meet international demands to prove it is not trying to develop

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Gulf Oil Spill: Where are we now?
WTXL ABC 27
By the time it was capped, it's estimated some five million barrels of oil had contaminated the gulf waters. The images that emerged showed beaches along the coastline covered in oil along with countless animals, many of which died.

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Iran Braces For New Sanctions
WLWT Cincinnati
The tracking systems are required by international law on seagoing tankers as a means to protect against accidents and spills. Even more financially detrimental to Iranian oil exports is the prospect of shutting down any of the country's oil fields

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