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Native to the Caribbean, Jatropha curcas was taken to India in the 1600s by Portuguese sailors who used the seeds for long-burning lamp oil. When Paul Dalton, 54, a Washington child-advocate attorney, decided to invest $500,000 in an alternative-fuel venture, he followed the Portuguese trail to India and found prolific new jatropha varieties being cloned in the city of Mysore. The fuel emits negligible greenhouse gases, and the trees can capture four tons of carbon dioxide per acre (which might make growers eligible for carbon credits on the global market). Says Ron Pernick, co-founder...
...prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has made restoring a close strategic relationship with Cuba a priority in Moscow. This alone should be more than enough evidence that the embargo is counterproductive. In 1962, the world watched with bated breath as Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off in the Caribbean, and many historians today recognize that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the world had ever come to nuclear holocaust...
...harbor. This is the first time that the Russian navy has visited Cuba since the end of the Soviet era and represents a clear effort by the Russian Federation to flex its muscle in America’s neighborhood. Nor have Russian moves been limited to the Caribbean. The invasion of South Ossetia last summer and the Bush administration’s plan to construct a NATO-backed missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic are just two reminders of how tense Russo-American relations have become in the post-Soviet era. Instead of encouraging further tension...
...Best Overacting, he would win every year. A stalwart of British theater, particularly David Hare plays, he is most warmly remembered by movie audiences for playing the drug-addled rock star Billy Mack in Love Actually and the pirate Davy Jones in the last two Pirates of the Caribbean offerings. (He also appears, his emoting confined to the standard range, as one of Tom Cruise's cohorts in Valkyrie.) Here, outfitted with piercing powder blue eyes, Nighy ascends to scenery-devouring heights that obliterate the boundary between O.K. and awful. You may smile or cringe at Nighy's malefic majesty...
...says Curtis. Water landings can result in fatalities as well; in 1970, an ALM airlines flight from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport to the island of St. Maarten ran out of fuel after missing three approaches in heavy weather, forcing the pilot to ditch in the Caribbean; 20 of the 57 passengers on board died, largely because no announcement was made to remind them to buckle their seat belts. In 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight over the Comoros Islands crashed into the ocean after running out of fuel; the pilot attempted to make a water landing while...