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...Countries are entitled to claim an exclusive zone extending 200 nautical mi. (370 km) from their coast. "When countries have overlapping claims," says Nuno Antunes, East Timor's legal adviser, "the best settlement is to be found in international law." Citing 75 precedents, he says equidistance is the key principle. But a median line would put all the petroleum reserves on Timor's side. Australia argues that the contours of the seabed are unique. "We have successfully established that the natural promulgation of the continent extends to the Timor Trough," says an Australian official involved in the talks last month...
...Located on Morocco's Atlantic coast, the port of Essaouira was for many years a well-kept secret of 20th century bohemia. Rock stars Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix have wandered its 300-year-old streets, joining a steady stream of beats and backpackers who, in some cases, were drawn as much by the local kef as by Essaouira's cultural mélange of European, Berber and African influences...
...telling. The kids who are dying are from places like Arkansas, Nashville or Ayden, North Carolina. They may be members of our cohort, but they aren’t our peers, exactly—they’re less New York than we are, less East or West Coast. They’re Southern kids and Midwestern kids, kids for whom the army means a way out of their little town and maybe some money for college. They’re the kids for whom the army has set up the recruiting website goarmy.com, where you can download...
...reorganize the top tier of editors. He hired as his deputy Dean Baquet, then the national editor at the New York Times, and gave him broad authority over the day-to-day running of the paper. Baquet has pushed his people hard to compete with the large East Coast papers in national and foreign coverage, in the Times's reporting on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as with in-depth pieces like a Pulitzer-winning series on Wal-Mart that showed how the store cut prices with overseas sourcing...
Reversing a long-standing migration of talent to the East Coast, Carroll and Baquet lured gifted people like writers Doug Frantz and Kevin Sack and editor John Montorio from the New York Times and investigative reporter Deborah Nelson from the Washington Post. Last month they appointed Michael Kinsley, former editor of the New Republic and the online magazine Slate and a TIME contributor, as editor of the editorial and Op-Ed pages. To pay for the hiring binge, newly installed publisher John Puerner--whom Carroll calls "the best publisher an editor could have"--reduced overall staff levels from...