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...Geneva-based International Campaign to Ban Landmines says there are an average of 15,000 to 20,000 land-mine deaths or injuries annually as innocent victims wander onto the leftover devices. Unknown numbers of unexploded mines are waiting to find victims in Angola, Cambodia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and many other countries...
...Southern Pacific Hotel Corp., and next dabbled in oil and gas, but lost heavily when energy prices collapsed in 1982. Munk turned to gold, he says, only when political unrest in South Africa during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods to mine, he settled on the northern Nevada desert and set about convincing investors that this was the time to gamble on North American gold. Those who believed him were soon rewarded. Goldstrike mine, near the town of Elko, has become the largest mine outside South Africa...
...process. For many people who go through this process, the depth of cumulative practical sacrifice (social isolation from their community; loss of time for schoolwork) and emotional investment (enduring verbal abuse, emotional attachment to other pledges, fear of failure) hinders their ability to stop, as it did mine. While many boldly proclaim what they would or would not let happen to them if they ever “pledged,” they incorrectly assume that they would be free from any emotional or physical trauma that would impair their judgment. In the midst of such an experience, one does...
Perhaps I was louder than I intended because a friend of mine on the shuttle laughed as I said goodbye to my mother. He said he’d never heard me talk in such a way, and informed me that my accent made it sound as if my IQ had just plummeted sixty points...
...Treat Me Right” back in 1997 when I was rocking my latest polyester selection from the Rave. Fast-forward ten years, and I’m just left uncomfortable. New heights of awkward are reached in “Everything But Mine,” when the group starts spouting such innuendos as “I’m gonna leave the light on / And I won’t let you down.” I dare you to keep a straight face when the Boys sing “She opens up just like...