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...powerful than anyone else.) Elsewhere, the old ways of thinking about the "national interest" - that guiding light of the Westphalian system - have fewer adherents than they once did. Not long ago, the national interest of, say, the Netherlands could be defined by a necessity to protect Dutch blood and soil. It would be absurd to imagine that the modern Dutch think that way now. For a sensible Dutch government, it makes sense to define the things that really matter in terms of the international opportunities available to its companies, and in the commitment to global environmentalism that its citizens apparently...
...desert flowers and plants. The onset of summer may have other gardeners pouncing on brown areas with water and fertilizer, but the Gillespies' garden requires little additional sustenance. Since Las Vegas launched its water-conservation program in 1998, 3 million sq. ft. of lawn have been upended, and more soil is likely to be turned. "It looks like this year we're going to double what we did last year," says Doug Bennett, the water authority's conservation manager...
...NATO was certainly well-advised to press Macedonia to begin addressing the grievances of its Albanian minority - after all, it is those grievances that have created fertile soil for the extremists to grow their insurgency. NATO was also aware that the ham-fisted Macedonian military might make a mess of a counterinsurgency campaign against the lightly-armed but mobile guerrilla forces and cause civilian casualties that would irreversibly radicalize the Albanian population...
...array of drills slowly removes soil, allowing the structure to settle...
Engineers then sank 41 parallel tubes diagonally under the foundation. A specialty designed auger--a giant drill bit--was inserted into each tube. A machine turned the augers one at a time to remove small amounts of soil over several months...