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...behind me on the way to Baton Rogue, one with a boyfriend in jail, and asked us for money. “Got three dollars. Got a dollar? No? How ’bout a phone?” The man behind me riding through Texas, explaining the oil rigs and the horse corrals and the lines in the marshy grass that humans made for catching crawfish...
...there, you take a 45-minute flight from Anchorage (or undergo a spectacular 600-km drive), which will carry you to the little fishing port of Valdez. It may seem ironic that the scene of one of the world's worst environmental disasters - the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, which released 40 million liters of crude oil into Prince William Sound - is also your gateway to great powder and exciting ski terrain. But Valdez has been a mecca for big-mountain skiing since the early 1990s, when Emily Coombs and her late husband Doug, two of America's most...
...food to share, meat was always heaped onto my section of the communal plate. The ceremony was interrupted by rolling blackouts. Like most other things in Yemen, the guests explained, electric service has worsened this year. Much of the country is increasingly lawless and desperately poor; reserves of water, oil and cash are running dry. The groom's brother Bandar, who drove me to Taiz the next day, pointed out new roads along the way - all built with foreign donations. "The government here is absent," he said. (See pictures of conflict in Yemen...
...archipelago. In December, the Argentine Congress passed a law that recognized the disputed territory as part of its Tierra del Fuego province. On Jan. 18 the British government rejected the gambit, saying there is "no doubt" that Britain remains the islands' rightful owner. Recent indications that there could be oil reserves surrounding the territory may have sparked the attempted landgrab...
...allies to move against him? The President faces a difficult term ahead, even without the unresolved question of his legitimacy. Critics of his government say it squandered billions during his first term on expensive social programs intended to buy political support. Now faced with increasing sanctions and lower oil revenues, the government is about to launch a new program to wean the economy from unsustainable subsidies, especially on energy - a move that is almost certainly going to be unpopular...