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...beer is starting to spill in the lobby of La Bouche á L'Oreille - Word of Mouth - a crowded, kitschy sometime nightclub on a lonely block in Brussels. It's Saturday night, there's a DJ in the next room, and conversations are taking place in three languages at once. This is a party for past and present E.U. stagiaires, or interns - well-bred 20-somethings from across the Continent who come to Brussels as much to meet their equally cultured peers as to learn the intricacies of E.U. bureaucracy. Near the bar, Genevra Forwood, 24 years...
...these bikes accelerate at a terrifying rate, and that blast off the line makes for an unstable and dangerous ride if you're on the back of one of them. It is the internal-combustion equivalent of yaba: fast, fun, treacherous. And likely to result, eventually, in a fatal spill. But if you're young and Thai and loaded on mad medicine, you feel immortal, and it doesn't occur to you that this night of racing will ever, really, have...
...badge, which encourages an understanding of energy issues, can be earned by making and cleaning up an oil spill, using cooking oil in a pan of water...
...these bikes accelerate at a terrifying rate if you're on the back of one of them. And that blast off the line makes for an unstable and dangerous ride. It is the internal combustion equivalent of yaba: fast, fun, treacherous. And certain to result, eventually, in a fatal spill. But if you're young and Thai and loaded on mad medicine, you feel immortal and it doesn't occur to you that this night of racing will ever, really, have to end. The hundreds of bikers thronged on the street, the revving engines, the other kids cheering...
...ground and to market. Years of Soviet mismanagement and underinvestment have taken their toll. Russia's oil fields are in dire need of rehabilitation; Sakhalin's north and much of Siberia are littered with rusting derricks ringed by porous labyrinths of old pipelines. Local environmentalists, pointing to the recent spill near the Galapagos Islands, worry about the potential damage to Sakhalin's rich ecosystem caused by toxic drilling waste...