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A suburban Los Angeles city last night took a significant step toward blocking unconventional oil drilling, making it the third in recent weeks to make such a move. The City Council in Culver City, 10 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, in a 5-0 vote directed aides to come back with language for a moratorium on oil drilling that uses hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," gravel packing or acidization. At the same time, the Council said that ...