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...most laughable weapon in the drilling companies’ rhetorical arsenal is talk of “roadless” drilling. “Roadless” has turned into “roads” before, in Prudhoe Bay. According to an Interior Department official quoted in The New York Times yesterday, “The term ‘roadless’ does not mean the absence of roads. Rather, it indicates an attempt to minimize the construction of permanent roads.” Wonderful news. By the same logic, one might suppose the term...
...spending billions of dollars to become the world's high-end playground. And getting Emirates' brand known worldwide is part of that plan: last year the airline spent $150 million to buy the naming rights for a new 60,000-seat stadium for the popular London soccer team Arsenal. It was the biggest sponsorship of its kind in British history...
...spending billions of dollars to become the world's high-end playground. And getting Emirates' brand known worldwide is part of that plan: last year the airline spent $150 million to buy the naming rights for a new 60,000-seat stadium for the popular London soccer team Arsenal. It was the biggest sponsorship of its kind in British history...
...largest force in the world, holds an overwhelming advantage over tiny Taiwan. But the island has tougher coastal defenses than Normandy did, and China's relatively anemic navy is incapable of a full-scale invasion across the 160-km Taiwan Strait. Instead, the P.L.A. has been building up its arsenal in new ways, betting it could force Taiwan to capitulate quickly without a bloody invasion?though that option isn't off the table. An estimated 600 ballistic missiles have been amassed within range of Taiwan. To impose a blockade of the island and deter intervention by the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...partly disabled microbes to jump-start their immune system. But cancer researchers have taken the approach one step further, turning microbes into tiny Trojan horses that can sneak into tumor cells and destroy them from within. "There is a good probability that microbe approaches will be part of the arsenal of the future," says Kenneth Kinzler, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins Hospital's Kimmel Cancer Center who is working with the clostridium bacterium. "We're betting...