She dashes off toward a little square of brown grass to take a leak.

NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)

But this could take a couple of months, so BP has plans to lower a massive dome over the leak site to suck oil from the seabed into vessels that can take it for safe disposal.

ECONOMIST: A slick off America's coast

"Even if there is a fraction of a per cent chance of a leak, the consequences are so horrendous that we can't afford to take the risk, " he said.

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