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...begins on a new marina for megayachts that its backers say will help turn this lowly industrial town into a glistening new Monaco. Its current appearance notwithstanding, Tivat is fortuitously situated on the so-called Venice-Corfu leg, the fastest-growing cruise destination in the Mediterranean and a pleasure ground for some of the world's wealthiest people. Montenegro's roads are crumbling, its power supply sporadic and its sewage system inadequate, but its coastline is one of the most spectacular on the Mediterranean...
...Tuesday a backhoe was used by South Ossetian villagers to tear down courtyard walls and rip into the sides of houses. Men wearing camouflage outfits and white Nikes, along with some in civilian clothes, stood around on the main road as the backhoe took a swipe at an above ground gas or water pipe...
Saakashvili reveals he is sleeping about four hours a night. A nasty cut on his right hand, suffered when his security detail shoved him to the ground in the town of Gori last week as Russian bombers flew overhead, is just healing over. "We are in a very decisive moment," he says in clipped rapid-fire speech. "We need to stay strong and show the people that we are strong. And we will stay to the end. We will resist [Russia]. We will squeeze them out of this entire territory...
...Amazon in South America to the vast Arctic stretches of Siberia. For now, the best we might be able to expect - until alternative fuels make oil and gas unnecessary - is adherence to the best safety standards for new exploration. After all, keeping the oil and gas in the ground may be better for the environment and the climate, but it seems unlikely. In April 2007 Rafael Correa, the President of Ecuador, made a bold proposal: to permanently forgo excavation of the country's largest untapped oil reserve, located beneath a national park, if the international community would compensate the country...
Four years ago, President George W. Bush was able largely to avoid trudging through this treacherous ground because he had the confidence of his base (this despite a grandfather who served as a Planned Parenthood treasurer and a wife who told Katie Couric she didn't think Roe should be overturned). He talked about promoting a "culture of life" but didn't get down in the weeds about when exactly that life started. McCain enjoys no such benefit of the doubt, and so he had to offer blunt reassurance. But his construction of human rights beginning "at the moment...