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Poll of 627 primary care physicians showed that nearly half believe patients in their practices get too much care
Read More »Oil Companies Brace for Tropical Storm Lee
By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Lee threatened the Louisiana coast with torrential rains and flooding on Friday and shut nearly half of U.S. offshore crude oil production and a third of its gas production.
Read More »Half of the world’s rockhopper penguins threatened by oil spill
An oil spill off the South Atlantic island of Nightingale has put nearly half of the world's population of endangered northern rockhopper penguins ( Eudyptes moseleyi ) at risk. The Maltese-registered ship MS Olivia ran aground on Nightingale Island on March 16. The New York Times reported Wednesday that more than 725 metric tons of fuel oil--half the cargo--had already leaked from the ship, surrounding the island in an 13-kilometer-wide oil slick.
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