May 12, 2010 | permalink

5,000 Barrels a Day

The amount of oil that is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at BP’s broken well. The video shows one of the two main rupture points.
Update: Scientists who have seen the video say the leak is much more than 5,000 barrels a day.

A look at oil’s indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.

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Dispatches from the war in Bosnia, published in 1996 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

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