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POPS Olympic Nightmare: Sailing Team Stuck In Algae With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition. Algae are now blooming over more than 12,900 square kilometers, or 5,000 square miles, of the sea, according to Xinhua.
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POPS Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian (14 pics) Despite National Gallery director Nicholas Penny's stated intention to return to smaller, more scholarly shows, an exhibition of Renaissance portraits opening at the National Gallery in October 2008 is more or less guaranteed to attract visitors in droves. Here is an advance preview of the faces on display
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POPSUS 'armada' enters Gulf This is bad news. I think war with Iran is a bad idea. I do not believe Bush is playing this right. I think his view is that he will not leave this for the next president, so he will engage. This is not good!
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POPSWash up, Duck! To me, this is a cute story. 10,000 yellow plastic ducks drifting 14 years :) Maybe someone here can catch one next year :P
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POPSYou can learn a lot from floating junk To report interesting items of flotsam that have washed ashore, send an e-mail to Curtis Ebbesmeyer at curtisebbesmeyer@comcast.net or a letter to him at: Curtis Ebbesmeyer Beachcombers Alert 6306 21st Avenue, NE Seattle, WA 98115 Be sure to include a description of the item, the circumstances of its discovery (location, date, weather conditions, etc.), and pictures of the item if possible. Detailed information about the release of wooden tops off Japan in 2005 and 2006 can be found at http://www.gondo.com/g-files/koma/page_1.htm.
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