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Stephania D

Exxon Valdez - 0 views

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Water Polution case

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  • It gained widespread infamy after the March 24, 1989 oil spill in which the tanker, captained by Joseph Hazelwood and bound for Long Beach, California, hit Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled an estimated 10.8 million US gallons (40.9 million liters) of crude oil.
  • This has been recorded as one of the largest spills in U.S. history and one of the largest ecological disasters.
  • At the time of the spill it was employed to transport crude oil from the Alyeska consortium's pipeline terminal in Valdez, Alaska, to the lower 48 states of the United States.
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  • The vessel was carrying about 1.26 million barrels, or about 53 million US gallons (200 million liters), of oil at the time it ran aground.
  • On August 27, 2008, Exxon Mobil agreed to pay 75% of the $507.5 million damages ruling to settle the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.
  • Stephania D on 03 Dec 08
     
    Exxon Valdez oil spill
Jilliane Velazco

Online Music Alters Industry Sales Tempo - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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iTunes cd cd sales music music industry

shared by Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08 - Cached
  • A year after Apple Computer Inc. launched its iTunes Music Service, the online music industry is selling songs by the millions
  • Customers at three of the leading online services – iTunes, Musicmatch Inc.’s Musicmatch Downloads and RealNetworks Inc.’s Rhapsody – buy about 10 times as many singles as they do albums. Offline, people buy 50 times more CDs than singles.
  • music lovers buying a few 99-cent singles instead of $15 CDs.
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  • “There’s no money to be made from singles,”
  • Dozens of free networks emerged to let people copy songs from one another’s computers, drawing an estimated 63 million users in the U.S. alone by mid-2003.
  • Apple said the service sold its 50 millionth song March 15.
  • Some online music companies continue to struggle, but the sector is growing fast and steadily.
  • Analysts estimate that the services’ revenue will grow from about $65 million last year to $250 million in 2004, with $120 million or more from downloadable singles
  • CD sales totaled $11.2 billion in the U.S. last year
  • online customers are buying a much broader range of music than is being sold in stores.
  • about 75% of the paid downloads weren’t in Billboard’s Top 200 and about 60% were “catalog,” or older, tracks.
  • more than 63% of the CDs sold in stores last week were new releases.
  • Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
     
    more people have been using piracy instead of buying real cd's from stores
Christina Sanchez

ABC-CLIO: World Geography: Entry Display - 0 views

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hong kong history 2008

shared by Christina Sanchez on 08 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Ma Ying-jeou was elected president of Taiwan in March 2008. A Harvard-educated lawyer and popular public figure, Ma won the presidency by the largest vote margin in Taiwan's electoral history. His landslide election also brought the long-ruling Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) back to power after an eight-year hiatus.
Aloysius Utomo

Panda bear pictures, information, facts - 0 views

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shared by Aloysius Utomo on 25 Nov 08 - Cached
  • same size as a Black Bear
  • 5-6 feet high
  • 276 pounds and males wheighing 10% to 20% more than females
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  • 25 years or more.
  • six small areas located in inland China
  • fifteen different kinds of Bamboo
  • 12 to 16 hours a day
  • 22 to 40 pounds of Bamboo each day
  • sold for $100,000 dollars.
  • pink when they are born.
  • 1,000 individuals in the wild.
  • 110 pandas in captivity
  • 20 and 40 lbs of food per day
  • 16 hours eating
  • eat other plants, fish, pika and other small rodents.
  • danger of extinction.
  • do not hibernate
  • born they are blind and very small
  • 3 to 4 1/2 ounces
  • start out with fine white fur
  • colored fur within a month of birth
  • eating bamboo by the time they are 5 to 6 months
  • one year of age, the cubs normally weigh about 75 pounds of bamboo
  • Female giant panda bears do not normally mature until they are 5 to 7 years
  • Mating begins in late-March and continues on into May
  • Females may mate with several males during the breeding season
    • Aloysius Utomo
      Aloysius Utomo on 04 Dec 08
       
      how to protect themselves
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      Aloysius Utomo on 04 Dec 08
       
      about panda size
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      Aloysius Utomo on 04 Dec 08
       
      how they eat
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      Aloysius Utomo on 04 Dec 08
       
      fur
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      Aloysius Utomo on 04 Dec 08
       
      where their area is
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