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...were deposited in Yanggakdo International Hotel, a 47-story structure that sits on an island in Pyongyang's Taedong River and abuts a nine-hole golf course, where I imagine it's pretty easy to get a tee time. The hotel is in an isolated spot, far from the streets where we might encounter ordinary North Koreans. And that was the point: our hosts plainly didn't want us mingling. When I later groused about it to the Pyongyang correspondent for the Russian news agency ITAR TASS, he just chuckled. "Don't you know what foreigners here call your hotel...
...conventional well design in that sort of pressure environment would be to install casing," Swarbrick says. Yet, either through oversight or because of technical problems, Lapindo did not case the hole to the planned depth. "For whatever reason, they weren't following the plan," Swarbrick says. "They had 5,000 feet of open hole. That's taking one heck of a risk...
...predictably ineffectual. Two relief wells intended to reduce pressure inside the original well have failed. Early last year, scientists from Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology came up with a more novel idea: dropping thousands of concrete balls, linked with chains like a string of pearls, into the Big Hole. The idea was to bleed off pressure inside the volcano slowly enough so that Lusi wouldn't simply erupt elsewhere - or shoot the concrete balls back out like a cannon. Satria Bijaksana, one of the Bandung scientists who came up with the idea, says that the balls reduced...
...January caused a breach in the levees, forcing more than a hundred families to evacuate. With the government's attempts to stop or channel the mud faltering, and the tide rising by the day, the sludge that swallowed Porong could eventually threaten another quarter-million homes. Indonesia's Big Hole only gets deeper...
...project is being conducted in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, the Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium, and the Missouri Botanical Garden...