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...Tweddle and his allies are currently focused on saving an untouched stretch of estuary near Able UK's yard that is a refuge for seals and other wildlife. Some evenings, Tweddle likes to drive the short distance from his house to the edge of the lagoon, where, in the twilight, flames burst from refinery chimneys like apparitions...
...have boys," says Nguyen Ba Thuy, deputy minister of health. Other Asian countries have seen the sex imbalance towards boys reverse, including South Korea, one of the first countries to report the missing-girls phenomenon. In recent years the skewed gender balance in that country has reversed down to near-natural ratios, thanks in part to societal changes that saw more young women working and thus able to support aging parents...
...veranda at the governor's residence in the southwestern Venezuelan state of Barinas, Narciso Chavez stands up, lifts a leg and stomps the ground several times, laughing. He is demonstrating the country-and-western dance moves he learned years ago at bars near Daytona Beach. Nacho, as he's nicknamed, studied English in Florida, had a son with his American girlfriend in Ohio, and claims he's still the best English teacher in his hometown. More to the point, perhaps, he's the younger brother of President Hugo Chavez, which may be how he came to be stomping around...
...rather his brother Argenis, who, as secretary of state holds a position that doesn't exist anywhere else in the country. Argenis, too, delivers anti-Bush harangues, but shorter and less spontaneous than his more famous brother's. And his audiences are smaller. At an event near Barinas commemorating independence hero Simon Bolivar's birthday, Argenis walked down a red-carpeted aisle and told a crowd seated on a high-school basketball court that Venezuela has an "ineludible commitment to march towards the socialism of the 21st century under the maximum leader, Hugo Chavez Frias...
...leaders are the representatives of the new oligarchy," says opposition leader Leonardi Meza. Although there has been government corruption in Barinas, no evidence has surfaced implicating the family. In 2006, a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme was uncovered at the Ezequiel Zamora sugar-processing complex still construction near Sabaneta despite having been slated for completion in 2005. Only lower-level officials have been charged in the case...