Gloom grows as BP's 'top kill' effort fails

'This scares everybody — the fact that we cannot make this well stop flowing,' an official says. Some hope lies with a new maneuver to cap the leak. BP acknowledged the failure Saturday of its latest "top kill" operation to tamp down oil gushing from its blown-out well, and launched a new interim effort to contain the flow.

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