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… started bleeding, and wouldn’t stop. Another crew member complained of a terrible headache. A third said he could … (Dan Serres, conservation director of Columbia Riverkeeper, points toward Chernobyl.) The Department of Energy (DOE) … prevented them from speaking out. Local tribes, whose diets were rich in fish from the Columbia River, were …
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… open to the West but, unlike many of their compatriots, not enchanted by it. Far from being elites, … the Islamic Republic’s thirtieth anniversary. Facing an audience of experts on Iran that included several gentlemen … The young men loosened up and described where the flashpoints were. They had already witnessed indescribable …
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… Inside Higher Ed reports that Thailand, upset over a forthcoming critical biography of President Bhumibol Adulyadej, … blocked access in the country to Yale University Press’s website: In Thailand, the assistant minister of information … book, The King Never Smiles , is described on the press’s website as the story of “how a king widely seen as …
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… the weather. It’s been hot for days; last week, several companies dismissed workers early on account of the heat. … acres—an area nearly the size of Los Angeles and San Diego combined—will be left fallow this year. Everyone in … both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It was also wildly controversial. Officials of Kern County banned …
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… stunned, trying to figure out what to make of it. I have come here, to the hamlet of Ogonki, in Pomerania, northern … as a solution to the shrinking reserves of fossil fuels. Studies show there may be hundreds of years of global supply. … educational events, and community forums, and has set up websites as a counterweight to the pervasive …
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… Liberia, 2005. “Okay, My-name-is, you can go.” The soldier, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper, waved Tamba through the … the soldier’s purpose shifting from interrogation to comprehension. Deaf to their own accents, my friends … protectors. Still, experience had taught them to dread checkpoints. Tamba grew tense whenever we approached one, and …