Word: southeast
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...Venezuela may have another reason to celebrate at this week's meeting, which will be held on Thursday before Ch?vez takes OPEC delegates to El Salto Angel, the world's highest waterfall, in southeast Venezuela. The country, which has about 78 billion barrels of proven crude reserves, also sits atop an estimated 275 billion barrels of heavy crude, which new technology has allowed to become more refinable and, as a result, a more legitimate addition to a nation's reserves. Should OPEC ratify Venezuela's heavy crude as bona fide reserves, the country would eclipse Saudi Arabia (260 billion barrels...
Rosemary morley doesn't deny that Toowoomba's water problem is grim. Like everyone else in this parched southeast Queensland city, she's been living with tough water restrictions for nearly three years. But the 60-year-old former president of the local chamber of commerce is sure she's being duped by Toowoomba authorities when it comes to a solution-and she's not alone. More than 10,000 people have signed a petition rejecting the local council's proposal to make the 95,000-strong community the first in Australia to supplement its drinking water supply by adding...
...rights group in Diyarbakir, the regional capital of the south-east. Last week the U.N. sent Yakin Ertürk, rapporteur on violence against women, on a fact-finding mission to investigate the suicides. Some 70 women die in honor killings in Turkey every year, mostly in the southeast, women's groups say. The real figure may be higher - in remote villages, deaths can often go unrecorded. A survey in southeast Turkey last year found nearly 40% of mostly male respondents said a woman guilty of adultery should be killed. And violence against women is still widely tolerated in Turkey...
...only become clearer with the passing years, the administrations that conducted the Vietnam War systematically lied about what our military was truly doing in Southeast Asia. Would listening to McNamara lie once more contribute to anything productive? Does anyone really believe that President Bush or any administration official ever publicly says anything worthwhile about the war in Iraq? The same goes for John McCain. As he panders more and more to the evangelical right and other demographics that he hasn’t relied on for votes in the past, his words quickly become devoid of any honesty. If Donald...
...distasteful to the mainstream—so morally degrading to society as to be worthy of explicit legislation prohibiting their unsavory habits. Worse, such laws discriminate—in effect if not intent—against ethnic groups that traditionally eat dog meat—namely, some East and Southeast Asian cultures. Dog is considered a delicacy in many Asian countries; unfortunately for new immigrants to the Land of the Free, here any savage who disrespects a dog enough to eat one is not wanted. The message is clear: Your tastes aren’t to Uncle Sam?...