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...dams, along with engineering projects to make the river navigable by larger vessels, have begun to ravage the river's ecology by blocking sediment and producing unnatural water flows that dissuade fish migration and spawning. The nonprofit Southeast Asian Rivers Network estimates that fish stocks on the Thai-Laos border have already declined by half because of Chinese activity. Farmers, too, complain that the once-predictable floods needed to nourish their paddies have been disrupted by the two existing Chinese dams - and the cavalcade of future hydropower projects will only make things worse. "You can't talk about the Mekong...
...Burmese regime that can easily withstand Western sanctions, an economy still closely tied to official power and patronage, and a growing underclass facing greater hardship than ever before. Millions of poor people from rural areas are on the move, in search of work and food, including across the border into Thailand. Many are now in desperate need of basic life-saving assistance, and yet per capita international aid to Burma (less than $3 a year per person) remains about a twentieth of what's provided to Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam...
Dick Parrott, 65, is one of Kastel's informants. Parrott raises grass-fed organic beef on a 500-acre farm near the Nevada-Idaho border, about 40 miles from the Horizon Organic dairy farm. After reading one of Cornucopia's newsletters, he e-mailed Kastel with concerns that Horizon wasn't meeting federal organic regulations - in part because its operations were so big. He began driving his pick-up truck to the Horizon farm, camera in hand. "You can drive around and see the cows aren't in pasture," says Parrott...
...jungles to avoid further government reprisals. Clashes between government troops and ragtag Hmong forces continue to this day, and refugees have poured into neighboring Thailand. This month, U.S. lawmakers petitioned the Thai King to halt the deportations of 8,000 Hmong living in makeshift settlements along the Thai-Laos border. Many of the refugees claim they are descendants of soldiers who fought for Vang Pao's CIA-funded army, and say they will be forced into labor camps or imprisoned if sent back home...
...another way. In X-Teams--their name for groups that get it right--the authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of engineering a better team: how to reach outward, build a support structure, be more flexible and navigate a corporate culture that might be less than enthusiastic about border crossing. They use examples from teams at Microsoft, Motorola, Toyota and Southwest Airlines and describe in depth how a team at Merrill Lynch created a distressed-equities desk that spanned debt and equity--something that had never been done before--one of some hundred X-team projects Ancona has helped...