Interestingly, the major fragmentation event does not appear to be the result of a fuel explosion.

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As burgeoning middle classes in emerging markets fuel an explosion in food demand, Deere is seeing farmers use the boom time to replace and expand their machinery.

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Irrespective of the reputations and the rhetoric of the Democratic and Republican parties today, the empirical correspondence between Republican presidencies and turbocharged entitlement expenditures should underscore the unsettling truth that both political parties have, on the whole, been working together in an often unspoken consensus to fuel the explosion of entitlement spending.

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In addition to the size of Tuesday's blast, the type of fuel used to create the explosion will be an immediate concern to the U.S., South Korea and other nations.

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All new Minis are being recalled to BMW's Oxford factory because of a design fault that could cause an explosion when the cars are being filled with fuel.

BBC: BMW recalls new Mini

Before the explosion, the rig carried 2.6m litres of diesel fuel and was pumping 8, 000 barrels (1.27m litres) of crude oil a day - a volume which may still be leaking from the well into the Gulf of Mexico.

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