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...annexed at the outset of the war), Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. Having watched Central Europe transformed by Soviet military power into a patchwork of authoritarian vassal states, Western Europe was only too willing to join an all-for-one military alliance with the U.S. and Canada to even up the odds in the event of further Soviet expansionism. Nor was it surprising that decades later, those Europeans who had actually lived under the Soviet heel would race to join the same alliance at the first opportunity. The anti-Moscow military alliance not only remained intact...
...largely autonomous Kurdish territories of northern Iraq, the regional government is already moving ahead with oil deals of its own that the central government in Baghdad considers illegal. Nevertheless, several smaller oil firms from Austria, Hungary, India, Canada and South Korea have signed deals with the Kurdish Regional Government. But most big players at present appear to be eyeing potential ventures in Iraq's vast oil territory around Basra instead. Years of neglect have left many oil fields there looking like junkyards. Rusting vehicles, heaps of trash and pools of spilled oil litter a hazy expanse dotted with plumes...
...which launched last October with a budget of about $1 million for the first year, are not without controversy. They represent an unusual and, at least initially, somewhat expensive new role for government. A few other states have similar programs, and the idea has taken hold in Australia and Canada. But in deeply conservative South Carolina, it is surprising to find enthusiasm for using state money to counteract private-industry marketing...
...massive electrical grid. But the breakdown of that line in northern Ohio began a cascade of failures that, in a little more than an hour, led to a near total power loss for more than 50 million people in the northeastern U.S. and parts of Canada. Full power wouldn't be restored for everyone in the affected area until Aug. 18. It was the largest blackout in North American history - and five years later, with the grid sagging again under the weight of increased energy demand, there's no guarantee that we won't see another outage...
Daigle is a member of the U.S.-Canada Power Outage Task Force, which investigated the causes behind the blackout, and worked on ways to prevent another one - but that may not be possible. He calls the blackout a "once in 10 years event," and past blackouts in 1996, 1977 and 1965 bear that out. (After the 2003 event, Daigle notes, some utility operators in western Europe said that such a widespread blackout could never occur with the continent's better designed grid - but in fact a major failure hit their system just a couple months later.) "[Failure] is always possible...