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What is the world coming to?

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Subject: What is the world coming to?
From: Bill Stent <>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:26:05 +1100
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994656

Fuel spill strikes World Heritage site 
 
  
18:02 09 February 04 
  
NewScientist.com news service 
  
A spill of 13,000 litres of diesel fuel into New Zealand's pristine Milford
Sound is being investigated by police as a deliberate act of sabotage. 

The spill was discovered at 0600 local time on Sunday by the crew of the
tourist boat Milford Monarch. A hose had been connected to the boat's fuel
tank, causing the fuel to gush into the fjord and form a two-kilometre-long
slick
 
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