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...remote and barren highlands of eastern Iceland, the herds of reindeer and flocks of pink-footed geese suddenly have some company. Hundreds of workmen have moved into the unspoiled valleys northeast of the Vatnajökull icecap, where glacial rivers flow through magnificent canyons in a starkly beautiful volcanic landscape. The men are working on the Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project: a vast network of dams, reservoirs, tunnels, power stations and high-tension lines to support a new aluminum-smelting plant for the U.S. multinational Alcoa on a fjord some 70 km to the east. At a total...
...sowed his fields, but the rains stopped and his saplings died. The rains came again in late June, Bhuyar planted once more, but again the crop withered. In desperation, Bhuyar sowed a third time. The rains didn't return at all. On July 13, Bhuyar walked out into his barren fields and swallowed pesticide. It's a familiar story. Thousands of Indian farmers have committed suicide the same way since the rains began failing seven years ago-2,000 in and around the small southern town of Anantapur alone-and hundreds more in the past two months. Vidarbha farmer Prabhakar...
...doesn't necessarily amount to a Yukos-style power grab, but it still worries many Western oil executives whose companies have already invested billions in the country. How did it come to this? When Kazakhstan broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991, this sparsely populated region of mostly barren steppe about the size of Western Europe was crippled with debt. Though desperately poor, Kazakhstan did have a wealth of oil and gas deposits that local firms had neither the technology nor the money to develop. Kazakhstan turned to Western companies for help, and firms like Chevron and Mobil moved...
...been dulled: we've forgotten how to see, or we limit our journeys to well-worn paths. Still, in a land as vast as Australia, there's more reason for joy than despair. Its myth-rich Aboriginal culture offers enlightenment if we care to engage with it; the seemingly barren interior can inspire awe when we visit the thriving land away from the coast. The wonder of discovery is there in simple things and grand: in quiet lives of contemplation and, if you can picture it, the instant a cosmic fireball hits the Earth. In the uncompromising intensity of professionals...
...themselves in its bliss before the red siren signaled their exit from the foam corral. Unlike my escapades getting freaky to BBMak, Mather Lather demanded its guests to seek out and fight for their suds. Instead of enjoying Britney among a sea of foam, I danced in a bubble barren corner with friends. As Polly R. Seplowitz ’05 aptly put it, “The only difference between the foam and non-foam part was that in the foam part your shoes wouldn’t stay on because the floor was so slimy...