You mess at your peril with people's cherished symbols, and James Harris, the Louisiana wildlife biologist, made the point to me as we looked at the brown pelicans, emblems of his state. Bedraggled wasn't the word for them. It needed a stronger word. Enslimed came to mind. The birds, acrobatic fish hunters in their normal existence, were covered from their stubby tails to the tips of their improbably long bills in thick goo - a goo which actually had an oil industry name: "Louisiana sweet crude". It was the oil gushing from the blowout beneath BP's collapsed Deepwater Horizon rig 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, which, after six weeks of accumulating in the ocean at a rate of 19,000...
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