Friday, December 31, 2010

2010 review: A year in brief

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11:00 31 December 2010

Busted well: 4.9 million

The number of barrels of crude oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion that destroyed BP's Deepwater Horizon well. Eleven of its crew died. For three mishap-prone months the company tried, and repeatedly failed, to plug its runaway well. Meanwhile, the crude poured forth, wreaking havoc on deep-water fish, migrating baby sea turtles, and BP chief executive Tony Hayward's career./.../

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