There would be a neat symmetry if a country that helped topioneer offshore oil-drilling also pioneered the cleanup necessary once all the oil is gone. [/align]
RON Kendall, an environmental toxicologist at Texas Tech University, explains that Hurricane Alex has already derailed the clean-up effort by at least a week.
If big sums are to be spent on cleaning up environmental disasters, it is better to spend them on unglamorous but pressing problems such as unsanitary water in Third World countries.
But three months ago, Lynn says she was cleaning the sink when her husband took the couple's 2-year-old son out of her arms and said he was going to give him some milk.