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...warn you, or fairly appraise you of what I (and many of my football-writing colleagues) can and can’t do.I can recognize zone coverage. I can recognize man-to-man, and I recognize blitzes. I know that as a punt returner, you plant your heels on the 10-yard line and don’t back up. I know the difference between a slant, a post, and a quick out.But there’s a lot I can’t do, as well. For starters, I can’t draw up a scheme on either...
...Even more complicated and challenging will be ensuring that the stacks of signed documents translate into lasting and measurable change for those who propelled nationalization to the policy floor - the poor and impoverished majority of Bolivians, like those who live next to the Rio Grande gas plant...
...million cubic feet of gas per day, the Repsol Rio Grande in Bolivia's eastern state of Santa Cruz sends gas to Bolivia and Brazil. Before the Spanish firm took over in 1997, the state-run facility barely functioned properly because of a lack of resources. Since then, says plant operations supervisor Joaquim Mendez, "things run efficiently - virtually accident free, productive and on schedule...
...Those living around the plant were promised that privatization would benefit them as well. But the barefoot children in torn clothing walking along the dirt road past wooden board and banana-leaf shacks are evidence that the poor's lives remained virtually unchanged...
Turner is testing 3,000 new varieties of bedding plants this year to help plant lovers identify the best of what's new, and he considers the Wollemi among the most unusual. Unlike other pine trees, which have a single trunk, the Wollemi pines, once fully grown, can have up to 100 trunks and stand more than 80 ft. tall. Hardiness has allowed the species to survive for millions of years, all the way back to when T. rex roamed the earth. "Its discovery is the equivalent of finding a dinosaur alive today," says Sally McGeoch, marketing manager for Wollemi...