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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>FYI,
Carolyn<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/08dam.html?hp"
title="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/08dam.html?hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/08dam.html?hp</a>
Volunteers give up on BP and unified command, and go to work saving their own
coastline.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/08flow.html?hp"
title="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/08flow.html?hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/08flow.html?hp</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Back in the Gulf ... At least one expert, Ira Leifer, who is part
of a government team charged with estimating the flow rate, is convinced that
the operation has made the leak worse, perhaps far worse than the 20 percent
increase that government officials warned might occur when the riser was cut. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dr.
Leifer said in an interview on Monday that judging from the video, cutting the
pipe might have led to a several-fold increase in the flow rate from the
well. “The well pipe clearly is fluxing way more than it did
before,” said Dr. Leifer, a researcher at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Santa Barbara</st1:place></st1:City>. “By way more, I
don’t mean 20 percent, I mean multiple factors.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-08/killer-undersea-oil-plumes-from-bp-spill-lurk-in-gulf-of-mexico.html"
title="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-08/killer-undersea-oil-plumes-from-bp-spill-lurk-in-gulf-of-mexico.html">http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-08/killer-undersea-oil-plumes-from-bp-spill-lurk-in-gulf-of-mexico.html</a> and
<a href="http://www.marsci.uga.edu/directory/mjoye.htm"
title="http://www.marsci.uga.edu/directory/mjoye.htm">http://www.marsci.uga.edu/directory/mjoye.htm</a>
- Updates on the plumes - and blog by Dr. Samantha Joye, Univ. of Georgia
researcher<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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