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...Pit, the sunken amphitheater that surrounds the T-stop entrance, seemed the perfect place for interesting encounters...
...1960s, he might have run into Bob Dylan or Joan Baez. But in the past twenty years, the Pit has been host to some less glamorous appearances...
...Kryukov, a graduate student in open pit mine development, says he and four classmates caught a train to Moscow and were housed at a resort outside the capital that is owned by the Russian State Technology University. "That's where all the students were taken. They treated us really well. We didn't pay for any of it," he says. Rehearsals for the program lasted two days and were organized by Putin's press service and producers from the state-owned Vesti television channel. "We had other questions, ones that were more relevant to us, about mining, about the education...
...exploded in the 1990s on the P.N.G. island of Bougainville, where concerns over the environmental and economic effects of an Anglo-Australian-run copper mine sparked a secessionist struggle that claimed 15,000 lives over the course of a decade. (The mine, one of the world's largest open-pit sites, is now closed as a result of the civil war, which officially ended in 2000.) Separately, the national government was forced to declare a state of emergency in Southern Highlands province three years ago when protests over a multinational consortium's proposed gas pipeline reached a crescendo. (The project...
...purpose certainly wasn’t to pit the needs and concerns of colleagues in the humanities and social sciences against those of colleagues in the natural sciences,” Hamburger said. “We are all dependent on the library in any number of ways...