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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...