Not least because it underlines the purely political nature of a drilling ban that now threatens the Gulf Coast economy and drilling safety.

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The life force of the series, Kim Cattrall's libidinous Sam seems to be punished here by being exiled to the left coast and effectively neutered by the nature of her relationship.

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Natural disasters such as the eruption of the volcano in Iceland or the oil spill on the Gulf coast last year make us seriously consider the fragility of human strength against nature.

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Wounded Nature-Working Veterans is an environmental group working to buy houseboats to allow the cleanup of remote East Coast shorelines.

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Dr Frantzis, who has just published his data in Nature, studies Cuvier's beaked whale a denizen of the Ionian sea off Greece's west coast, among other places.

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