Word: pour
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...Keep Green? It takes nerve to pour $6.75 billion into Russia - more than double the total amount of foreign direct investment in the country last year. So the oil industry took notice last week when British Petroleum paid that sum for a 50% stake in oil company TNK, making the biggest purchase of Russian equity ever. But just as BP was showing its faith in Russia, environmental groups were claiming the company had become an apostate to the green causes it once championed. TNK has some notoriously polluted assets, like the Ryazan refinery and the Samotlor field in western Siberia...
...decorate their castles and palaces. And what's not to like about the divine lifestyle: a constant round of wild parties, battles, adventures and seductions. The stories gave Titian a chance to luxuriate in glowing nakedness, gleaming jewelry, strokable fur, lush lawns and tangled forests. He could also pour sincere emotion into the Christian story, producing tender madonnas or dark scenes of Jesus' torture and death. To David Jaffé, senior curator at the National Gallery, Titian's empathy was his distinctive gift. When he depicts a beautiful woman, he says, "you can feel his real admiration...
...taken in buses across the border on a road built to improve access to a tourism development in the North. The caravan over the first new route across the DMZ since the end of the Korean War was a poignant, intensely emotional moment for Koreans. Hyundai Asan plans to pour $250 million?for starters?into a planned industrial park and tourist project in Kaesong, a city barely an hour from Seoul. Says Kaesong city councilor Jong Yong Chol: "The U.S. maneuvers against our country are getting more and more severe. But the people of the North and the South...
...West Antarctica are speeding up their transport of ice to the sea. Earlier this year, in the Antarctic Peninsula, the Larsen B ice shelf showed what can happen when conditions warm. First, rising summer temperatures created meltwater ponds on the surface of the ice shelf, allowing water to pour into cracks. Then pressure exerted by the inflow of water deepened the cracks as relentlessly as a wedge splitting a log. Eventually the ice shelf fell to pieces, like an enormous tree reduced to a jumble of firewood...
...round and then hightailing it over the mountains. These strikes typically caused more nuisance than harm. Ghani's confession, however, suggested that for the first time anti-U.S. forces were creeping back from their hideouts across the Pakistani border and regrouping in large numbers. Their aim is to pour heavy fire on the Americans, forcing them to retreat from their isolated bases...