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Does it work? In southeastern Australia, temperatures can reach 105[degrees]F in summer, but inside the house Murcutt designed in the Adelaide Hills for his brother, it's more like 75[degrees]F. In winter, when it is 32[degrees]F outside, the house is 62[degrees]F. The energy savings from not using electricity to heat or cool the house are considerable...
...which means there are few potential buyers. The Nature Conservancy bought the rights to 1.6 million acres adjoining Bolivia's Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in 1998 for $1 an acre--doubling the park's size. In 2000 Conservation International leased 200,000 acres of forest in southeastern Guyana for a $20,000 up-front fee and annual payments of 15[cents] an acre. Even where loggers cannot be bought out, the damage they do can be reduced. In the Congo the Wildlife Conservation Society has persuaded the German firm CIB to feed its workers beef and chicken instead...
...inside. But the Israeli human-rights group B'tselem said he was used as a shield. GERMANY Inundated Cities As floodwaters receded in Austria and the Czech Republic, they rose in Germany. The Elbe River reached a historic high, sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes in the southeastern German city of Dresden. While emergency services concentrated on evacuating residents from the danger zone, authorities also worked furiously to minimize damage at the city's historic Semper Opera House and Zwinger Gallery, with its great art collection. Across southeastern Germany, floods have forced more than 30,000 people from...
...Bosnian muslim engineer, remembers the day his native Mostar lost the bridge from which the city takes its name. For more than four centuries the Stari Most, or Old Bridge, linked the Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds, Christianity and Islam, West and East. Its graceful arch and stone towers in southeastern Bosnia were a meeting place for Serbs, Croats and Muslims as well as travelers from as far away as Istanbul and Glasgow. That ended with the Bosnian war, when the Neretva River became a front line between the town's Croat and Muslim residents. Some tried to protect their bridge...
AFGHANISTAN Allied Offensive British troops backed by U.S. fighter jets began their biggest combat operation since the Gulf War, launching a sweep through southeastern Afghanistan that some said would be the last major offensive against al-Qaeda forces. About 1,000 British commandos scoured the mountainous regions of Paktia province in what was dubbed Operation Snipe. But U.S. officials said there were several operations under way, with allied troops also preparing to strike in areas across the Pakistan border...