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...would be foolish to pretend we won't do any environmental damage. You do a project as big as this, you cause environmental damage. Fact!" says Peter Goldston, a booming-voiced Australian who is technical director of Nam Theun Power Co., the consortium building the project. "But our project allows us to mitigate some of the damage." Goldston, 61, has worked on seven dam projects in Australia, Cambodia and the Philippines, dating back to 1966. "We did some terrible things during that time, no doubt about it," Goldston says. "But times have changed, so we have had to change...
...journalism I have seen in years. For far too long, Americans have uncritically accepted inaccurate arguments and sound-bite explanations for what is unquestionably the most serious problem facing our future. Environmental destruction, terrorism and a host of other problems are rooted in world poverty, but sadly we pretend there is nothing that can be done. I commend your magazine for providing informed, well-written and easily understandable arguments to help dispel those illusions. Well done...
...defy a ban that forbade women to use the front entrance and pray in the main hall with the men. Mosque leaders are considering banishing her for such disruptive behavior, but she feels she's making progress. She prays in the main hall now and says, "They just pretend I'm not there...
Overall, The Ring Two is no masterpiece. But it is extremely diverting and well-made, and doesn’t pretend to be anything to be anything more than a reason to throw some popcorn tossed in the air. Considering the horror films of late, that’s saying...
...look—I’ll just let the door close and pretend not to look at the kid standing right behind me, who has in fact been following me for the past fifty yards, and for whom I could’ve easily propped the door but I’m too much of a schmuck to bother to waste the four and a half seconds it would take to lodge my bloated ass in the doorway so that someone else might pass...