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When British explorer Wilfred Thesiger traveled through Oman in the 1950s, he did it the hard way: an arduous crossing by camel of the sand-dune seas of the Empty Quarter, the Arabian peninsula's desolate interior. Parched, starved, waylaid by tribesmen and imprisoned by local sheiks, he barely survived. Fortunately, today's traveler needn't be as tough or determined as Thesiger; regular flights now make the hop over the Empty Quarter...
Opponents got a boost last month when a draft report leaked from the EPA's Denver office called the project, which doesn't need congressional approval, "environmentally unacceptable." Aware that such a harsh verdict could delay the project indefinitely, Deputy Secretary of the Interior J. Steven Griles, a former energy lobbyist, asked the EPA to reconsider. The agency's final evaluation is expected this week. But there is another roadblock: the Interior Department's own board of appeals has ruled that three leases in the basin were granted illegally because the environmental impact of drilling for methane had not been...
...Columbine parallel even more exact, the incidents are identical in one sense: political leaders have been gravely shaken by a tragedy they thought could happen only in other places. Just like their American counterparts, German leaders are groping for ways to prevent such a thing from happening again. Says Interior Minister Otto Schily: "I don't believe we can turn our schools into fortresses now. That would be the wrong result." And even if they could, Germans may have to accept a fact that America has been facing in recent years: that people in charge of public safety may have...
Meanwhile, research teams are scrambling to create animal models for autism in the form of mutant mice. They are beginning to examine environmental factors that might contribute to the development of autism and using advanced brain-imaging technology to probe the deep interior of autistic minds. In the process, scientists are gaining rich new insights into this baffling spectrum of disorders and are beginning to float intriguing new hypotheses about why people affected by it develop minds that are strangely different from our own and yet, in some important respects, hauntingly similar...
GERMANY After the Grief As friends, relatives and sympathizers mourned the deaths of 16 people in a school shooting, authorities sought measures to help prevent similar incidents. Interior Minister Otto Schily proposed raising the legal age for gun ownership from 18 to 21. Bavarian premier Edmund Stoiber suggested a ban on violent video and computer games. Youth groups said such proposals were an overreaction and would not have prevented 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser from carrying out his deadly mission at the Gutenberg High School in Erfurt, which investigators said had been planned for at least six months...