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...areas with violent seditious guerrillas like Colombia’s FARC, but in Bolivia, aerial spraying destroys peoples’ opportunities to feed their families. Burning crops in distant Inca lands only prevents politicians from facing the real problem of demand, whether it is in Amsterdam’s dark alleys or Los Angeles’ celebrity pubs...
...Dorado, in the form of fossil fuels rather than gold and further vanquishing democratic institutions. The other is a harder path to follow, considering that shortsighted foreign powers often advance their immediate economic interests and create larger problems than the ones they attempt to solve. After all, the dark shadows of Pinochet and Noriega are still lively memories. Nevertheless, this gauche aims at trade, infrastructure and fair growth...
...unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Millard charts the trip Roosevelt called his "last chance to be a boy," which was a calamity. The travelers were beset by piranhas; starvation; rapids; malaria; mutiny; Indians with poison-tipped arrows; and tiny Amazonian fish that attack the, um, loins. In the dark of the jungle, delirious with fever, threatening suicide, the indomitable ex-President transforms into an existential hero straight out of Joseph Conrad...
...Furthermore, the American administration and its European counterparts will have to—rightly—reassess aid flowing to the Palestinian Authority. In the process, they should keep in mind that, if they opt to cut the light on our neighborhood, innocent people will be left in the dark to fend for themselves, while Hamas will continue to flourish from aid coming from Iran and other sympathetic wealthy Arab and Muslim regimes.For now, the prospects of peace continue to be dim. Should we be worried that Hamas is in power? Certainly, but we should not panic. The greater cause...
...everybody," she says, "should be subverted by romance now and again." McCaughrean's ease on literary giants' shoulders may have swayed the panel of Pan judges. But their description of her suggested treatment as "charmingly skewed" hints that they found an even better reason in the dark twists of McCaughrean's own imaginative fiction. Her 2004 novel, Not the End of the World, for example, describes in grim and blanchmaking detail life aboard the Ark with the zealous Noah, while all around the world drowns. And in last year's White Darkness, the best friend of Sym, a 14-year...