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...takes many years. There is plenty of water. The problem is managing it." The grand vision of the NBI goes something like this: large dams along the Blue Nile in Ethiopia will generate power for the region and even for export to Europe. In Sudan and Uganda, where the soil is much richer than in Egypt, vast tracts of irrigated land will grow food. That will help sustain Egypt's population and enable the north African nation to expand its role as the region's manufacturing powerhouse. Each country would invest in the projects, and each country would profit...
...upper curve is even more ingenious. It holds a vegetative roof?basically an overhead meadow. To build it, the contractors covered a plywood surface with a drainage mat, which was then layered with four inches of soil and vermiculite and planted with perennials like sedum and wild strawberry. The roof-meadow helps keep the house cool, controls storm-water runoff and gives neighbors up the hill something more interesting to look at than shingles. As a bonus, they get to watch the owners periodically weeding their roof...
...shift troops around as nations fall in and out of the coalition against Saddam. U.S. diplomats worked overtime last week trying to win basing rights for 15,000 troops in Turkey, and they remain optimistic that Saudi Arabia will join Kuwait in allowing U.S. troops to stage from its soil. Rumsfeld also is making an ever growing list of things that could go wrong in a war with Iraq--and peppering his officers to anticipate them. "He has an unsettling tendency to do that," an associate says. As Rumsfeld put it recently, "I'm never satisfied. It's genetic with...
...contain myself any longer—I demand a boycott. CVS needs to stop selling diapers. Everybody knows that diapers are used when a married man and a woman love each other very much and need something to bundle their little baby up in so that he does not soil his jumper. However, the availability of diapers in a pharmacy that caters specifically to college students promotes the idea that just anyone can be having sex and babies, with or without love, with or without marriage. Today’s teenagers are extremely susceptible to peer-pressure, and all they...
...compromises themselves are similar. The impasse of values still has consequences in Latin America today: economic inequalities, constitutional traumas, and unspeakable pasts. Such wounds do not easily go away. And besides, this prioritization of security only provides ammunition for the true enemies of our values. Wire-tapping on American soil, torture in Iraq, lack of fair trials for detainees at Guantánamo, and qualms with the new UN Human Rights Council are the perfect examples that extremists like to quote. Al-Qaida, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan are beneficiaries of America’s impasses. To those radicals?...