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Rename the Gulf Spill to Include BP

The media are using terms that don't nearly do this disaster justice. Dominique Browning on why we need a name for the Gulf spill that eternally links BP with the horror it caused.

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A scan online of news and blog headlines shows that we—editors and writers and, for that matter, politicians and environmentalists—are all over the place in giving a name to this disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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