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Oil company mailboxes side by side. Offshore oil platforms have begun to cluster along the coastline.

Will oil and water mix? That's a crucial question for a state facing development of vast, valuable offshore oil sites when that same state also has to balance the risks to valuable environmental treasures of landscape and wild life. Big bucks and…

Portrait of Tip O'Neil.

House speaker Tip O'Neill trades his gavel for a golf club during the Kemper Open.

Getting children to eat a balanced meal when they really don't want to is sometimes a difficult task and can be very embarrassing in public.

On a rainy night, sister Mary waits along a parade route to catch some of the beads thrown from the float. Upon seeing her, the float riders bombard her with beads she gleefully catches. It was her last Mardi Gras. She died about a month later.

Nicaraguan boy plays on a former Somoza tank, left as a relic of the revolution in a Managua park.

Four sisters stand amidst the rubble of their family's farm after it was hit by a tornado.

Photographer says, 'I was sent to the elementary school to shoot winners of the science fair. On the way to the school the weather worsened. Before I ever shot the winners, a tornado was spotted in the sky near the school--it was not a drill.

In the seaside community of Farida, CA homeowners and firemen brace against a tidal wave.