Word: dam
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...grassland might be another's development site; where you see a mountain range, someone else might see a coal vein. Sorting out such matters can become impossible - especially when the debates take place across borders, as preservationists in one country plead with another not to burn a grassland or dam a river or tear down a thousand-year-old temple...
...idea for a World Heritage List was hatched in the late 1950s, when the ancient Abu Simbel temples in Egypt were being threatened by a small dam. Frustrated by the Egyptian government's lack of action to protect the ancient buildings, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), launched a worldwide campaign that saved the temples by relocating them to higher ground. Today, the process is a good deal more official than that - almost like the Oscars of the environment. Any country is eligible to send in a list of nominees for protection. The candidates are then independently...
...Mandalay Beach at Mandalay Bay is offering a full-scale wedding package for $1077.07. The Ritz Carlton in Lake Las Vegas has its "Seven Ways of Wonderment" package that includes a deluxe room, seven hours of spa treatments for two, a seven-course meal and a tour of Hoover Dam, one of the Seven Wonders...
...power as literature - or, perhaps more important, as an allegory of Kapuscinski's own communist-era Poland. Indeed, as The Emperor was going to press, the Polish government approved an extravagant flood-control program for the Vistula River; the author phoned in a new passage about a costly dam built by Selassie. "Everything is a metaphor," Kapuscinski once said. "My ambition is to find the universal...
...literally. Though his other media include a djembe, a table, and his knees, Ogunnaike’s most frequent form of artistic expression might simply be tapping out rhythms on the floor with his feet, as he instinctively does throughout our interview.In addition to his involvement in music, Dam, as friends call him, is a psychology and African studies joint concentrator, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship, which provides students with funding to travel abroad after graduation. Ogunnaike grew up in a musical family: his mother studied traditional Yoruba music from West...