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...Already, Cambodia suffers from rampant corruption, and there has been little transparency in the awarding of exploration contracts to foreign oil companies. Longtime Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed concerns that oil will be anything other than a huge boon for his country. But for the poor farmers watching the oxen decline to feast at the Royal Plowing Ceremony, the potential of oil revenues must feel completely removed from their hand-to-mouth lives. What will they do if a drought does indeed strike this year, and their crops wilt in the tropical sun? If the sacred cows know...
...glad that it has ended the way it has with such amicable terms.” According to Pforzheimer “Warlord” John M. Sheffield ’09, the treaty between the three winners emerged following frustrations at what players characterized as the rampant cheating and treaty-breaking. He cited Dunster’s unhonored alliance with Pforzheimer and a ploy by the Mather War Council to bombard the site with fake accounts in an attempt to shut it down before their demise. “It was a moral victory,” Sheffield said...
...tactics involved in the game itself are a whole other matter. Accusations of cheating and spying have run rampant. So, too, have actual cheating and spying. One player wrote to us fingering another House with signing up pre-frosh to bolster their ranks. “Councils of War”, which have sprung up in each House to plot strategy, jockey constantly to keep tabs on their opponents’ plans, with the help of dummy accounts, stolen passwords, and secretive informants. Open email lists and the Web site’s built-in private chat rooms have been...
...smeared, both from the vehicle exhaust and the frequent forest fires that break out around Indonesia. Once home to some of the most extensive rain forests in the world, Indonesia is now losing trees at a faster rate than any other nation, to flames but also to rampant logging. Since equatorial trees soak up carbon dioxide when they're alive and release the gas when they're cut down or burned, Indonesia's rapid deforestation is the main reason why this country of 245 million is the third biggest carbon emitter in the world after the U.S. and China...
...clogged from the vehicle exhaust and from the frequent forest fires that break out around Indonesia. Once home to some of the most extensive rainforests in the world, Indonesia is now losing trees at a faster rate than any other nation in the world, to flames but also to rampant logging. Since equatorial trees soak up carbon dioxide when they're alive and release the gas when they're cut down or burned, Indonesia's rapid deforestation is the main reason why this country of 245 million is the third-biggest carbon emitter in the world after...