Word: portly
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...Nigerian soldiers posted to guard them. In the past month, militants have also exploded two car bombs as "warnings" of coming chaos. When I set off with three guides in a cigar-shaped fiberglass boat into the swamps last month, a Nigerian naval officer aboard a warship in the port city of Warri warned me not to go on. "Even we don't go there," he said, motioning along the Warri River. Then he slowly drew a finger across his throat...
...vast majority of the people of the Delta still live in severe and visible poverty. One of the first activists to speak out against this imbalance was businessman, TV writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, from the Ogoni region, east of Nigeria's oil capital Port Harcourt. Saro-Wiwa preached nonviolence, but Nigeria's then military government charged him with having "counseled and procured" the murder of four Ogoni elders, and in 1995 hanged him, to international condemnation. Despite the return to democracy and government promises to improve the lives of Delta dwellers, little has changed. Today in Oporoza...
...visitors had taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem only slightly better than those in Port-au-Prince, Bangladesh or Baghdad...
...crude a day, and with inventories of 321.4 million bbl., stockpiles are above average for this time of year, according to the Energy Department. The major Gulf Coast pipelines were up and running by the end of last week, albeit at reduced capacity. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, the nation's only deep-water tanker port, unloaded its first cargo since Aug. 27. Still, some analysts predict that disruptions in the supply chain mean motorists will be in for several more months of $3 gas or worse. "The only thing we can hope for is an amazing amount of conservation...
Consumers can expect to pay more for basics such as coffee, bananas and paint (made at idled chemical-processing plants in the Gulf). New Orleans is the second largest coffee port in the country, after New York, and stores 27% of the nation's beans. "Right now those supplies are off the table," says Joe De Rupo of the National Coffee Association. Imports are being rerouted to Houston, Miami and Jacksonville, but no one knows whether the 211 million lbs. sitting in bags in New Orleans is salvageable or whether the roasting equipment, possibly submerged in contaminated water...