| Officials to target gun violence in Connecticut Nov 27th 2012, 12:08 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is taking a cautious step toward confronting the politically tricky subject of gun violence with an initiative focused on prevention due to be unveiled on Tuesday. It will not be the gun control launch that some of President Barack Obama's supporters hoped for after Obama won a second four-year term in a November 6 election. Instead, U.S. ... |  | At New Jersey fuel terminal, Sandy's scars to linger for months Nov 27th 2012, 11:33 LINDEN, New Jersey (Reuters) - At the small Gulf Oil terminal just south of Newark, New Jersey, mobile power generators are being packed up and tanker trucks are again loading gasoline, one month after Superstorm Sandy. But for the seven workers who run the terminal around the clock, life is still far from normal. The electronic gauges that allow them to see how much fuel is stored at the site's eight vast tanks are down, forcing them to manually check each unit when new fuel arrives by pipeline. ... | | Insight: Sandy gives New York oil supply lesson, will it sink in? Nov 27th 2012, 10:52  NEW YORK (Reuters) - At 4 p.m. on October 29, as heavy winds battered the East Coast ahead of Superstorm Sandy's landfall, the Coast Guard's regional command center on Staten Island lost power and its hulking backup generators hummed into action. Commander Linda Sturgis, who oversees emergency prevention at the Port of New York, was buzzed through two thick security doors into the Port's hive-like vessel traffic center, the maritime equivalent of an air traffic control tower. ...
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