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...host to giant oil multinationals that are conducting oil-exploration activities. In the process of searching for oil, large quantities of gas have been flared throughout my over 30 years of existence and are still being flared. I was never bothered by the gas flares until I read Al Gore's Earth in the Balance, from which I learned they are a great contributor to global warming. I became enlightened but at the same time frightened by the damage done to my immediate environment and the greater world. As an African, my interest in the environment was further aroused when...
...name from the 19th century water-purification plant and ice factory in which it's housed. Today, the structure has been given new life by famed Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta. He has transformed the building into a 26-room aerie, installing a wide stone staircase in its triplex al fresco lobby, along with a rooftop pool offering pristine views of nearby colonial gems (among them the 16th century Church of St. Francis...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare and turned it into two departments. Then there was Ross Perot, the presidential candidate who babbled about opening the hood of a car and tinkering with the innards. President Bill Clinton showed his lack of interest by assigning the subject to Vice President Al Gore. And now there is Romney, who told the Journal that--depending on the data, of course, and whatever McKinsey recommends--he would create a layer of "super-Cabinet" positions so that the President doesn't have "30 direct reports...
...there has not been a repeat of pre-election terrorism. And in Spain, the country’s strategy seems, if anything, to have won it protection. Although the country has suffered from domestic terrorism (by ETA, a Basque nationalist group), it has not been victim to an Al-Qaeda terrorist attack or plot since withdrawal from Iraq. The only effect that withdrawing from Iraq had on Spain was that it saved Spanish lives and resources.Between 2004 and the present, on the other hand, the U.S. has lost much. U.S. public opinion is not in favor of the war. Sixty...
...Sadrists what they say is their rightful level of representation. Agreements and cease-fires aside, the Sadrists still put less faith in the power of democracy than they do in the power of their militia. "Of course, [because] the Sadrist movement has a base in the street," says Ali al-Mayali, a Sadrist member of parliament. "[It is] a base the other won't have - could never dream of having." In southern Iraq, political disputes are still more likely to be solved in the streets than at the ballot...