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...most of Alaska's history, the environment has been an afterthought on the road to exploitation. From the arrival of Russian fur trappers in the 1780s, the Last Frontier has been a rich trove of resources. Today oil and natural gas provide more than 85% of the state's revenues, along with a royalty check for nearly every one of Alaska's 686,000 residents. "Being against development here is literally the third rail of politics," says Bryce Edgmon, an Alaska state representative from Bristol...
...these children all together." The Katzes don't think their town is an obstacle to peace. They can sometimes see Palestinian Arabs on the green flats far below but have no interaction with them. Most people in Efrat take bulletproof buses to Jerusalem, 15 minutes away, via a "bypass road" - one of a vast network Israel has built in the West Bank. The Katzes believe Arabs arrived in the area only in the 1970s. "People tried to build here many times and failed because the conditions were very harsh, rocky, no water," Israel Katz explains. "Jews are very stubborn people...
...mental." Led into a radio discussion of a possible war against an unnamed Middle Eastern nation, Simon gauchely says, "Personally, I think that war is unforeseeable." Trying to worm his way out of the gaffe, he burrows in deeper when he tells the press: "To walk the road of peace, sometimes we need to be ready to climb the mountain of conflict." That gets him a scalding scolding from Communications Director Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi). "The mountain of conflict?" he sneers at Simon. "You sound like a f---in, Nazi Julie Andrews...
Traxys CEO Mark Kristoff told TIME that his company suspended trade in the DRC in May 2009 until there is a clearer road map for cooperation among companies, the U.N. and governments for a plan of social action. He added that Traxys' $50 million in trade in the DRC is equivalent to 1% of the company's total business. Afrimex told TIME via e-mail that its last shipment from the DRC took place in September 2008 and all such transactions have since ceased. "Any link between Afrimex's past mineral-trading and armed groups remain wholly unfounded," the statement...
...contrast was stark. When President Barack Obama touched down in Moscow earlier this month, there was little fanfare to mark his arrival. But when Vice President Joe Biden visited the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, two days ago, the road from the airport was crowded with people waving U.S. and Georgian flags. The welcome was so warm that Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta wondered if the Georgian government might rename a square after Biden - just as it had named a road "President George W. Bush" after the former President's visit to the country...