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Along with larger epidemics such as the West Nile virus and malaria, Pollack has compiled droves of research inspired by public concern about lice. He focuses on lice that feed on human blood, particularly the familiar childhood nuisance of head lice...
Canada’s Talisman Energy came under heavy fire from activists two years ago for its stake in the Greater Nile Oil Project—the same joint venture with the Sudanese government that PetroChina’s parent company has undertaken...
...excavations and on display outside Sudan for the first time, help to fill in the outlines of human history from the Paleolithic period to the end of Ottoman rule in Sudan in 1885. A 200,000-year-old pebble found among raw ochre lumps on Sai Island in the Nile appears to be smeared with yellow and red pigment. If the color was consciously applied, the stone is one of the earliest indications of artistic expression ever found. Sandstone lions from the mid-1st century B.C. symbolize the Kushite state, and a gilded representation of a Kushite King...
...series of dams across the upper reaches of the Mekong are expected to halve water flow on the river that provides employment, transport and income to 65 million Southeast Asians. These kinds of water controversies could spark ugly international disputes. Security experts have warned of flash points along the Nile, the Jordan, the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Mekong. As long ago as 1995, the then World Bank vice president Ismael Serageldin predicted: "If the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water...
...have danced on a boat in the Nile, in Cairene nightclubs and in pain when I banged my head on the door of the bus to the university where I am studying...