Asked by the Times when Armstrong might confess, Tim Herman, his longtime lawyer, said: “I do not know about that. I suppose anything is possible, for sure. Right now, that’s really not on the table.” But before Armstrong can come clean, he will have to settle a number of open cases, including a federal whistle-blower case “in which he and several team officials from Armstrong’s United States Postal Service cycling team are accused of defrauding the government by allowing doping on the squad when the team’s contract with the Postal Service explicitly forbade it,” according to the Times.

While Herman denied that Armstrong has talked to Travis Tygart, USADA’s chief executive, the Times cites sources who say otherwise. In addition to Tygart, whom he spoke to in “an effort to mitigate the lifetime ban he received for playing a lead role in doping on his Tour-winning teams,” the source says Armstrong has also met with David Howman, the current director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency. According to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s code, athletes who admit to guilt may be eligible for a reduced punishment.

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“AHA bowed to political and financial pressure and refused to report the Production Defendants’ conduct to the authorities,” according to the suit, in which Casey describes observing drugged, sick, and underweight horses being used for work on the show. Casey also argues that, in order to save time and money, Luck producers would intentionally misidentify horses so that AHA animal safety representatives could not track their medical histories.

“We took every precaution to ensure that our horses were treated humanely and with the utmost care, exceeding every safeguard of all protocols and guidelines required of the production,” HBO told in a prepared statement. “Barbara Casey was not an employee of HBO, and any questions regarding her employment should be directed to the AHA.”

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Because the whale is located on National Park Service land (in the Gateway National Recreation Area), Fisheries is hoping to borrow heavy equipment from the NPS to conduct an on-site necropsy. “The park service is also expected to help dispose of the whale’s body,” according to the . Garron, the NOAA specialist, is checking with local landfills and also considering burial options.

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While the immediate threat has passed, experts monitoring the mountain predict another sudden eruption of similar size could take place within the next couple of weeks. “Should a further eruption occur, a new national advisory or warning would be issued,” according to the . There’s also the possibility, volcanologists from GNS, a government-owned company that focuses on geology, geophysics, and nuclear science, warn, of a much larger event.

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The non-discovery raises some serious questions about our scientific understanding of the ocean. This latest research will result in the scrubbing of the island from most maps, but it has bigger implications. “All the scientific cartography relies on these maps, and numerical simulations of waves and currents depend on size of these land forms,” Zahirovic said. “It just goes to show the oceans are so underexposed. It’s actually really shocking that we haven’t not found more islands.”

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Most of the nearly 44 million Americans who are traveling for the weekend鈥攖he majority by automobile鈥攃an expect clear skies and pleasant weather. “Airports across most of the country faced few delays on Wednesday,” according to . The only major problem area was Chicago, where a thick fog forced hundreds of delays at both O’Hare and Midway, the city’s two primary airports. Even there, though, flights were typically off the ground about 40 to 45 minutes later than scheduled.

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Tossing all of that turkey isn’t just a waste of money (it adds up to more than $280 million), it’s also terrible for our environment. “Growing a pound of turkey meat uses 468 gallons of water and releases 12 pounds of CO2 emissions according to a report by the Environmental Working Group,” Discovery News pointed out. That’s “equivalent to driving your car 11 miles and taking a 94-minute shower.” With Americans projected to purchase 736 million pounds of the bird for this Thanksgiving (and throw away 204 million pounds), that adds up to 95 billion gallons of water and about one million tons of CO2.

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