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Gasoline Prices - Pump - Oil - Crude Oil hovers near $100 amid Iran tensions
| Crude prices were steady Friday amid a weaker US dollar and expectations that Europe will be able to find oil elsewhere if Iran makes good on its threat to immediately halt exports to the region. | ... (photo: WN / sweet) Jakarta Post
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Gulf of Maine (Aug. 23)--An entangled Humpback whale breechesduring a successful rescue in the Gulf of Maine.  U.S. Coast Guard crews and Bob Bowman, from the Center for Coastal Studies, freed the whale after it became tangled in a lobster trap.  USCG photo by PA3 BRENT M. ERB (110503) ( SEARCH AND RESCUE (FOR RELEASE) ) Groups sue over Navy sonar use off Northwest coast
| Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and ki... (photo: US Coastguard / PA3 BRENT M. ERB) STL Today
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Sony - Electronics - TV World stocks gain on Fed's low rate pledge
| BANGKOK World stock markets were mostly higher Thursday after the U.S. central bank pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery. | B... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag) The Charlotte Observer
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Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, left, arrives with his military defense attorney, Meridith Marshall for a court session at Camp Pendleton in Camp Pendleton, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Haditha outraged as Marine avoids jail in massacre
| Haditha, Iraq -- | In this town which saw 24 unarmed civilians die in a U.S. raid seven years ago, residents expressed disbelief and sadness that the Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot fi... (photo: AP / Chris Carlson) San Francisco Chronicle
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Anacortes Refinery (Tesoro), on the north end of March Point southeast of Anacortes, Washington An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas Oil up as Fed sees low rates through late 2014
(Corrects contract delivery date in paragraph 8 to March.) * US Fed says will keep rates low until late 2014 * US weekly crude stocks rise 3.56 mln barrels -EIA * Coming Up: U.S. weekly jobless claims... (photo: Creative Commons) The Guardian
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