Shell Oil Spill Approaches Nigerian Shoreline

The spill is likely the worst to hit those waters in a decade, a government official said Thursday. The slick's movement is putting at risk birds, fish and other wildlife in the area. Shell, the major oil producer in Nigeria, said the spill came from a "flexible export line" connecting the offshore field to a waiting tanker.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/22/144157465/shell-oil-spill-approaches-nigerian-shoreline?ft=1&f=1004

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EPA Tries to Pull a Fast One

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarkets
You're a savvy political appointee, and you're bringing out the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards for Power Plants rule that will raise electricity rates all over the country, particularly in battleground states of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, and Michigan. What can you do to get the public to swallow the costs?Timing is everything, and you choose the Wednesday before Christmas, when most people aren't paying attention.And then you schedule the announcement at a place designed to tug at the heartstrings, say the National Children's Hospital in Washington D.C. You ask...

Source: http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/12/22/epa_tries_to_pull_a_fast_one_99433.html

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Bianculli Picks The Best (And Worst) TV Of 2011

Fresh Air's TV critic reveals his top 10 list of the year's best shows, from a political drama on Showtime to a "risky" comedy on ABC. Bianculli also reveals which shows are the worst to hit screens this year — including not one but two shows featuring Snooki.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/20/143778548/bianculli-picks-the-best-and-worst-tv-of-2011?ft=1&f=1057

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Gingrich's Extremism on Judges

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- In Newt Gingrich's America, states that balked at desegregating their schools could have ignored the Supreme Court with impunity.In Gingrich's America, if the Supreme Court struck down the individual mandate to obtain health insurance, a re-elected President Obama would be free to ignore the ruling and order the mandate enforced.These are not far-fetched extrapolations of Gingrich's views. They derive directly from his arguments for curbing the power of what he views as a "grotesquely dictatorial" judiciary.At the center of his critique is Cooper v....

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/21/extremism_in_pursuit_of_judges_is_a_vice_112487.html

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Treating Stress, Speech Disorders With Music

More and more hospitals and clinics now offer music therapy as a supplementary treatment for everything from anxiety to Alzheimer's, but its efficacy varies for different conditions. Neurologist Oliver Sacks and several music therapists discuss the science and practice of music therapy.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/16/143847285/treating-stress-speech-disorders-with-music?ft=1&f=1007

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