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Oil Spill

Storms and towering sea swells continued to stymie the clean-up today of an oil spill that has spread along Japan's rugged west coast. NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that the operation to mop up the more than 1 million barrels of oil that a Russian tanker spilled when it split in two earlier this month has suffered both natural and man-made setbacks.

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