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Those who run Wyoming tread a fine line, reveling in the boom's economic boost to the state but mindful of the growing unrest among residents. State politicians helped landowners win a key battle last year when they passed a law that in essence stripped mineral-rights owners of their historically dominant status. Before the law, nothing forbade energy companies to drill and produce on land without so much as notifying or paying damages to its surface owner. But even that measure of protection is at risk in a political scuffle between Wyoming and federal authorities. In a letter...
...guarantees of Israeli restraint if they spy evidence that they aren't. But on the eve of a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, it was clearly no longer tenable for France, a key architect of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, to be seen as fearing to tread where others were ready to - particularly the Italians, 3,000 of whom have been promised to UNIFIL. If the guarantees were good enough for Rome-often derided in French military circles as providing "Club Med" troops-why wouldn't they be for Paris? After all, France is on the Security...
...number of people killed in a given mining accident, or the number of people executed for capital crimes, dead dog statistics aren't considered state secrets in China. Likewise, while NGOs in China that focus on issues like the rule of law or rights of workers have to tread carefully if they want to stay in business, people gathering to take in stray cats or protect pandas can operate freely. The coverage in the Chinese media served as a stark reminder of how seldom people in China are allowed to express similar outrage when it comes to cruelty toward other...
Aramex made its name in part by going where others feared to tread, getting mail across Beirut's green line during the Lebanese civil war and using donkeys to get parcels past Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank. Ghandour got his break when FedEx and later Airborne Express made Aramex their Middle East partner. The U.S. firms gave Aramex invaluable lessons in everything from quality control to technology. When DHL acquired Airborne and dropped Aramex, Ghandour learned another lesson: the turnaround. He got busy marshaling the regional players that Airborne had left in the cold into a new alliance...
...patch of land on earth. At times, the streets and souks can become a suffocating crush of human congestion. And the task of finding a lost soul is made more hazardous by the long-held air of suspicion and gangs of gunmen ready to open fire on outsiders who tread on their turf...