Last year, Transocean commissioned a «strictly confidential» study of the reliability of blowout preventers used by deepwater rigs. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Vioxx belongs to a class of drugs known as COX - 2 inhibitors, and although approved to treat pain from arthritis and other conditions, the drugs were also considered potential preventers of cancer and Alzheimer's disease because of their anti-inflammatory properties. (sciencemag.org)
The regulatory blowout preventer failed long before BP ever started to drill — precisely because Salazar kept in place the crooked environmental guidelines the Bush administration implemented to favor the oil industry. (rollingstone.com)