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...will be overseas - areas that, until the recent price rise, were too remote and forbidding to be worth drilling. Case in point: the vast, impenetrable western reaches of the Amazon. Touching parts of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia and Brazil, the western Amazon has remained relatively unscathed compared to the eastern stretches of the rainforest, which have been ravaged by logging. With few roads, the western Amazon has remained so undisturbed that there are still new indigenous tribes living somewhere inside the jungle who have never encountered the outside world...
...roads destroy forests and damage wildlife habitats. Roads also invite in the most formidable agent of ecological disruption: humans. That means an influx of hunters and loggers, along with the heavy equipment and personnel needed for oil exploration. "Our attention has always been focused on the rainforest in eastern Brazil, because that's where the road network is," says Finer. "But the roads being put into the western Amazon have the potential to open up the area...
...shared legacy of language. As part of his cultural upbringing, Tipoti spent time with a Torres Strait elder and linguist, the late Ephraim Bani. "Through his teaching I learned that our western island language is connected to the Cape York and northern Aboriginal people," he recalls, "and the eastern island language is connected to the coastal villages of Papua New Guinea. Adding to that, our language is very strongly connected to all the Pacific islands. We're part of that network. And that's why I'm really proud to be part of events like this...
...dates to the early 1990s when the Soviet empire collapsed. A bipolar universe gave way to a world in which the "sole superpower" boasted about how it had "won" the Cold War. Russia was forced to swallow the news that NATO would grant membership to former client states in Eastern Europe, along with former Soviet republics. Russia, the fallen empire, would have to content itself with membership in the largely symbolic Partnership for Peace...
...took more than four hours before the pack of eastern European presidents finally emerged from their negotiations to greet the crowd. They said they had watched the attacks of the past few days with a growing sense of anger and concern. "You have the right to freedom and indepedence," the Ukrainian head of state, Viktor Yuvshenko, declared . "Yours is the same story as Poland only the difference is that everybody is here, everybody is together," Polish President Lech Kaczynski concluded . "You are not alone!" Lithuania's President Valdas Adamkus said in English. "Let's stand together and victory will...