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POPSPirates Capture Saudi Oil Tanker 
Pirates have seized a giant Saudi-owned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean off the Kenyan coast and are steering it towards Somalia, the US Navy reports. The US-bound tanker was captured on Saturday some 450 nautical miles (830km) south-east of Mombasa, and is now approaching the Somali port of Eyl. The Sirius Star is carrying its full load of 2m barrels - more than one-quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily output. Its international crew of 25, including two Britons, is said to be safe. Lt Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the US Navy's 5th Fleet, said the attack was "unprecedented". The route around the Cape of Good Hope is a main thoroughfare for fully-laden supertankers from the Gulf, the world's biggest oil-exporting region. With a capacity of 318,000 dead weight tonnes, the ship is 330m (1,080ft) long and is classed as a Very Large Crude Carrier. "Vela response teams have been mobilised and are working to ensure the safe release of crew members and the vessel," it a
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POPSPurified urine to be astronauts' drinking water I thought there was a problem with purification processes not being able to eliminate hormones. On a lighter side, if they practised a certain form of yoga, they would not have to purify all of it, just keep their own for cortisone.
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POPSLittle-known french landscapes and regions Beneath each picture is the name of the region (i.e. Vaucluse, Aude, Savoie, etc...) and above the picture is the name of the town/village where it's located. "Château" stands for "Castle", "Ile" stands for "Island", "Cap" is "Cape", "Jardin" is "Garden" and "Baie" is "Bay". Hope you enjoy :)
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POPSDisney Villas Orlando is located in central Florida 75 miles northeast of Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater Beach. It is 50 miles due west of Cape Canaveral, the Kennedy Space Center and Cocoa Beach. Best known as the home of Disney World, this city is also the center of the largest concentration of family entertainment attractions in the world.
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POPSE.P.A. - Ethanol Promotion Agency About 320 million tons of biomass would need to be produced and transported in order to replace 10 percent of the U.S. yearly oil consumption with ethanol. That is enough material to fill 21.44 million semi-trailers. Stacked end-to-end these trailers would stretch from Florida's Cape Canaveral to the moon's Sea of Tranquility.
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POPSKennedy Released from Hospital Decent of McCain to mention it... sad to see the last Kennedy in such state... almost astonishing how one family could be so blessed and so cursed at the same time. Hopefully he'll pull through this one.. hard to critique the guy when he's ill...
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POPSThe Population of China’s Provinces Compared # Zhejiang (47 million) South Africa # Yunnan (44 million) Colombia # Jiangxi (43 million) Tanzania # Liaoning (42 million) Argentina # Guizhou (39 million) Sudan # Heilongjiang (38 million) Poland # Shaanxi (37 million) Kenya # Fujian (35 million) Algeria # Shanxi (33 million) Canada # Chongqing (31 million) Morocco # Jilin (27 million) Afghanistan # Gansu (26 million) Saudi Arabia # Inner Mongolia (24 million) North Korea # Taiwan (23 million) Yemen # Xinjiang (20 million) Madagascar # Shanghai (18 million) Cameroon # Beijing (16 million) Angola # Tianjin (12 million) Cuba # Hainan (8 million) Austria # Hong Kong (7 million) El Salvador # Ningxia (6 million) Sierra Leone # Qinghai (5 million) Slovakia # Tibet (3 million) Jamaica # Macau (0,5 million) Cape Verde
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