Rules to Be Waived for Border Fence

Rules to Be Waived for Border Fence
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Doomsday Seed Vault Opens In Arctic

Doomsday Seed Vault Opens In Arctic
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Ship Crashes into SF Bay Bridge Tower, Spills 58,000 Gallons of Fuel Oil

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Carl Nolte, Michael Taylor, Chronicle Staff Writers
An 810-foot-long container ship crashed into the base of a tower of the Bay Bridge’s western span in heavy fog Wednesday, spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay.
It was the first time in memory that an oceangoing ship had run into the bridge. There [...]

Environmental Laws Waived to Press Work on Border Fence

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/us/23fence.html?ref=science
By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times
October 23, 2007
Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, waived several environmental laws yesterday to continue building a border fence through a national conservation area in Arizona, bypassing a federal court ruling that had suspended the fence construction.
Citing “unacceptable risks to our nation’s security” if the fence along the border with [...]