Word: plain
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...Saturday, a member of the prince's entouragepushed the camera of Crimson reporter Joshua A.Gerstein '91-92 into his face, Gerstein said.Gerstein, who said he was taking pictures ofmembers of the prince's family and securitypersonnel, said that plain-clothes Cambridgepolice officers standing nearby refused to take areport about the incident...
...foreign defenders have saved Saudi Arabia from Saddam so far, but at the same time the influx of troops has underscored the country's vulnerability. Like the boy who called the bluff on the emperor's new clothes, the Iraqi leader made it plain that Saudi Arabia was not quite the muscular Arab power it appeared to be. "Saddam showed that we are a paper tiger," notes an economist in Riyadh. "Our ability to defend ourselves is a joke." That realization augurs a revamping of the Saudi military. Less easily fixed is the ! breach of the implicit contract between...
...results are spectacular. The structure, built on a slope, is dominated by a soaring Amazonian rain forest, lush with 300 species of plants. At its periphery, tree ferns and bromeliads flank a stream that leads to a mountainside flood-plain forest and an open vista of tropical savanna. There, plants from Africa, Australia and South America bask in a less humid atmosphere, where bees and hummingbirds help pollinate plants and a colony of termites aids in the decomposition of dying material...
...million-acre refuge is home to several hundred Eskimos, grizzlies, musk-oxen, wolves, migratory birds and a herd of 180,000 caribou, whose majestic spring migration has inspired naturalists to call the preserve "America's Serengeti." But to oilmen and Alaska politicians, the refuge's 1.5 million- acre coastal plain is a potential lode of black gold...
Almost all elected officials in Alaska believe the U.S. should open the coastal plain for drilling, which could create thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in tax revenue. The Bush Administration, citing a study contending that the oil could be pumped without harming the environment, has proposed that the drilling ban be lifted. In addition, the Senate last month unanimously passed an amendment to the defense authorization bill that obliges the President to keep oil imports below 50% of domestic demand. If passed by a joint resolution of Congress, the amendment could open all federal lands outside national parks...