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Since the days of the czars, the Russians have dreamed of harvesting Siberia's wealth, but its remoteness has frustrated them. As one Soviet expert on BAM puts it: "When God was distributing the elements over the earth, he grew tired when he got here, mixed up everything he had left, and dumped it haphazardly." BAM will eventually carry a marvelously mixed bag of these riches: petroleum from major new oilfields in Western Siberia, coal from Neryungri and Chulman, iron ore and gold from Aldan, diamonds from Yakutia, and salt, asbestos, molybdenum, copper, tin and bauxite from various areas...
While many Americans often view the dollar only as their own national currency, it is also the principal trading and reserve currency for the rest of the world. What the U.S. does or does not do with the dollar affects every country on earth, and Washington's mismanagement of its money has lately begun to seem more and more like a script filled with dire trouble for everyone...
...Lippe, legislative assistant for Friends of the Earth, said yesterday Staggers called a "voice vote" on the clause and then Rep. Marc Marks (R-Pa.) "called for a roll call vote and Staggers ignored...
Above all, how in the world will I be able to describe how the earth looks after it has snowed for some time? How can I ever bring snow to the world of cocoanut grottos, hybiscus flowers and jasmin bushes? Words are woefully inadequate, I thought...
...Haden, Los Angeles Rams quarterback, on his Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford: "The Rhodes has made football seem less important to me; it brings it down to earth...