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...together by the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden to mark the bicentenary of his feat by reenacting a segment of it - has all the tools of modern bushwalking. When one of the group injures his leg in a fall, there are mobile phones to summon a car along a fire trail. Caley may have put up with flour, dried beef and the birds the party's dog caught, but these walkers have freeze-dried kangaroo korma and bolognese, fresh snow peas, peanut butter and macadamia nuts. Whenever he gets a chance, Wyn Jones - an expert naturalist and a raconteur known...
...became a U.S. citizen in 1968, and I believe that voting is the most important part of citizenship. I am amazed that the system was so disorganized?flawed voter lists, machines that have no verifiable paper trail and different election rules in different states. Compared with many other countries, the U.S. is still in the Stone Age. We need to develop national election standards. Our votes can push national and local issues in widely disparate directions. But if you did not vote, you have no right to complain. Peter Jenkins Eagle River...
...what happens to the rest? For years investigators have followed Arafat's money trail in an effort to find out how the billions of dollars donated to the Palestinian cause have been spent. Although many details of Arafat's financial dealings remain murky, the evidence suggests that by his death, the Palestinian leader had squandered much of the fortune he had built in the name of his people. Before the 1991 Gulf War, Arafat received millions from gulf states, including at least $50 million a year from Saudi Arabia. Palestinians working in the gulf...
...attorneys and the selective, retroactive application of new legal principles. If the Russian state can come down so heavy-handedly on one firm, the pro-Yukos camp argues, everyone is at risk. "It would be a very brave person that concluded Mr. Khodorkovsky is the end of the trail," says Tim Osborne, managing director of Menatep, an investment fund created by Khodorkovsky and his allies that owns 61% of Yukos...
...Russian oil can be. Back in the 1990s, that wasn't self-evident. The collapse of the Soviet Union was accompanied by a slide in Russian oil production, from a peak of almost 11 million bbl. per day in 1987 to just 6 million in 1996. Yukos blazed the trail--and helped reverse the oil slump--by investing heavily in existing fields in Siberia, bringing in Western technology and dozens of American and other experienced foreign managers. Partnering with Schlumberger, a U.S.-based oil-field-services company, Yukos became the biggest Russian player, accounting for 20% of total production...