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...manufacturers for cities to pursue, the bass business looks pretty good. "You've got to go find something that drives tourism, which drives jobs and incremental sales revenues without impacting the infrastructure," Hagale says. Bass Pro is retail's answer to a chip-fab or an auto plant...
Dusk has set in on the road out of Kandahar, and Captain Jeremy Turner of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division is explaining why he prefers Afghanistan to Iraq. "The Iraqis will plant explosives and run away," he says. "But the Afghans will go toe-to-toe with you." Just as Turner, 29, starts to expand on the point, a huge explosion interrupts him. One of the humvees in his 16-vehicle convoy has been hit by a roadside bomb and explodes in a flaming whoosh. Turner and his men have driven straight into a Taliban ambush...
...poverty, you may have to go down and plant a tree; then at least you will have taken action,” Maathai said...
...efforts to further develop this idea, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization that encourages women to plant trees, thereby both reversing deforestation and empowering women in a particular area...
...Besides threatening to deflate my trophy case, this deal is dangerous on several counts. It assumes that if North Korea were allowed light-water power plants, the presence of international inspectors would preclude illicit bomb-making. But a study completed last year by my organization (the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, D.C.) detailed how a country such as North Korea could divert spent or fresh reactor fuel from a large light-water reactor to a small, hidden reprocessing or enrichment plant without inspectors finding out in time to block the material from being made into bombs. The U.S. State...