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...play, directed by Harvard Law School Professor Bruce L. Hay, Bearing oscillates between narrating her own experience with intellectual detachment and living it with graphic, emotional loss of control; in one scene she may lecture on hospital procedure and in another sob hysterically while vomiting into a plastic basin. Edson has her heroine’s experiences parallel Donne’s, making for a play that, like his poems, is both intellectually complex and emotionally wrenching...
...Reuters reported in October 2004 that Sinopec had purchased a six percent stake in two Sudanese oil blocks in the eastern Upper Nile region of the country. And the Washington Post reported in December that Sinopec is constructing a pipeline connecting the Melut Basin, in the south of Sudan, to a tanker terminal...
Once the pipeline from the Melut Basin is up and running, revenues will be shared by the Khartoum regime and the rebel-led government of South Sudan, said Jemera Rone, a researcher at Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. Until a final peace accord is reached ending the two-decade-long Sudanese civil war, the South’s share of oil revenues will accrue interest in an escrow fund, Rone said...
...second fastest growing state in the nation, after Nevada (another desert state, whose population grew 87% in the same period). Developers working in the U.S.'s four major deserts--California's Mojave, Arizona's Sonoran, Texas and New Mexico's Chihuahuan and Nevada and Utah's Great Basin--can't build houses fast enough. In the town of La Quinta, Calif., southeast of Palm Springs, property prices jumped 48% last year, and new-home buyers have to go on waiting lists or hope to win a developer's lottery for the right to buy a small patch of desert...
...need for clocks, weathermen or juries in Basin City--Sin City to you. It's always night, always raining and every dispute is resolved personally, often by a bullet to the groin. Men are the walking wounded, with scarred faces and psyches. Women are trophies, to fight for, possess or smash. Noir doesn't get gnarlier than in the corpse operas of Frank Miller's graphic novels or Robert Rodriguez's ultra-vivid movie of three of them...