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...foreign experts who treat the existence of this Buddha with the kind of fretful confidentiality usually associated with state nuclear secrets. Some archaeologists worry that an excavated statue could become a target of a restored Taliban-like regime. Says Paul Bucherer-Dietschi of the Afghan Museum in Exile, near Basel: "There's no way we could possibly protect the site." Bucherer-Dietschi worries about looters as well. At the bidding of Pakistani antiquities smugglers, he says, the Taliban trucked off chunks of the two standing Buddhas and sold them "like pieces of the Berlin Wall...
...company, based in Basel, Switzerland, celebrated the move with a lavish dinner at the Fogg Art Museum last night, attended by professors and researchers from Harvard and MIT and state politicians...
...That the world needs an e-graveyard is no surprise. For every new technology born, an old one is laid to rest, and new technologies come along rapidly in the information age. But a report issued last week by the Basel Action Network (BAN), a Seattle-based NGO, sheds new light on where old computers go to die?and on the environmental consequences. E-waste, electronic gear containing hazardous material, is routinely sold and shipped from the industrialized world to developing countries in Asia for recycling. It's a messy business that "leaves the poorer peoples of the world with...
...Nearly all of the e-waste at Guiyu is imported from America and Japan. But the U.S. government isn't liable for the damage, says Bob Tonetti, a senior scientist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under an agreement called the Basel Convention, most of the world's developed nations and all 15 E.U. members have banned the export of hazardous materials to poorer countries. The U.S., however, permits e-waste export on the condition that it is destined for recycling, regardless of how polluting that...
...companion Jacques Christinet, but abandoned the plan when they realized the journey would involve a 25-km swim and passage through a swamp. A subsequent attempt to get into Sarawak by rowing a dingy from an Indonesian island had to be abandoned when Manser's campaign office, the Basel-based Bruno Manser Foundation, received a call from the Malaysian embassy warning him not to try. "Somehow they already knew exactly what we were planning," says Christinet, who now works as a mountain guide in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt...