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...question to trouble legislators - and people with secrets to hide - everywhere. But there's one clear lesson from the strange case of Twitter and the Guardian vs. Trafigura and Carter-Ruck. Trying to suppress information in the age of social media is like trying to put out a forest fire with a garden hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twitterers Thwart Effort to Gag Newspaper | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...because Costa Rica over the past generation has built a reputation as one of the world's greenest countries. It so jealously guards its environment that 26% of its territory is under national park protection, its eco-tourism sector is a $2 billion-a-year cash cow and its forest cover has actually doubled since the 1980s - thanks to more trees per capita being planted there than anywhere else. "Cutting down a single tree in Costa Rica is cause for scandal," says Pedro Leon, head of the administration's Peace With Nature Initiative. (Read how Costa Rica is turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costa Rica's President: It's Not Easy Staying Green | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...from conservationists. Worse, they say, he recently lifted a ban on open-pit mining. The move is likely to result in the largest such gold mine in Central America, Las Crucitas, to be operated by a Canadian-owned firm, Infinito, and will require clearing 125 acres (50 hectares) of forest land. It also has environmentalists in Costa Rica and Nicaragua warning of a cross-border eco-catastrophe in the event of cyanide leaks into the San Juan River. (Cyanide is used in recovering gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costa Rica's President: It's Not Easy Staying Green | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

Despite its exceptional start to the season, the Crimson found itself in a tricky spot this past Saturday night. After dropping its first game of the season to then-No. 3 Wake Forest, Harvard had failed to score a goal in regulation in its Ivy League opener against Yale. The team was just minutes away from a tie which would have seen it enter the heart of conference play in a significant hole...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midweek Matchup For No. 8 Harvard | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...think that everyone is excited that we got back on the right track after [the loss to Wake Forest],” said Rogers, who earned his second Ivy League Rookie of the Week award for his performance on Saturday...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midweek Matchup For No. 8 Harvard | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

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