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...taking a Mexican passport, which he uses to this day. Out of Danang the road snaked north along the coast through emerald country, through two-cow towns with broken coolers brimming with hot soft drinks, mangy dogs sulking in the shade. Some of the most physically beautiful people on earth glided by on bicycles. All smiled. ''There's an old French fort on top of a mountain up here,'' said Dave. ''It was an ugly place to be.'' We stopped, looked at a few thousand bullet holes. On through Phu Bai, gone back now to rice paddies and oxen...
Most reasonable people agree that the Earth is warming, and that humans are the main cause. But even reasonable people disagree on what we should do about it. At one end are the true believers, like physicist James Hansen, who recently argued that oil executives should be put on trial for crimes against humanity. At the other are the truly doubtful - like Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who helped block a Live Earth concert from being held on the Capitol's grounds last year - who are convinced that the environmental cost of climate change will prove less disastrous than the expense...
...voter registration figures" aren't everybody's idea of a good time, but voting experts pore over obscure and apparently random registration data the way seismologists measure tiny movements in the earth's crust in order to predict when an earthquake is coming...
...most wicked men on the face of the earth since the days of Father Adam." Those words, spoken by polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, were recorded in a jailhouse phone conversation over year ago. On tape, he renounced his leadership of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, the breakaway Mormon sect whose latest run-in with the law saw hundreds of women and children rounded up by authorities in Eldorado, Texas...
...conservative Popular Party has decried the project as a poor use of the parliament's time and energy as Spain's once-booming economy starts to decline. And the Catholic Church has spoken out against the Project for eroding the Biblical hierarchy that gives humans dominion over the earth. "This is either a ridiculous society or a dislocated one," said the Archbishop of Pamplona. "Asking for human rights for monkeys is like asking for bull rights...