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...Locals call it Lusi - a portmanteau of the Indonesian word for mud, lumpur, and the name of the nearest city, Sidoarjo. Lusi is a mud volcano, though that appellation is somewhat misleading. The mud is actually more like brackish water. And, unlike the igneous volcanoes that dot Indonesia's countryside, the underground plumbing fueling Lusi is largely mysterious. Twenty-two months after it first erupted, Lusi remains the world's most bewildering environmental disaster. "I've never seen anything like it," says Richard Davies, a geologist at Britain's Durham University and one of only a handful of experts...
Though Popular Party candidate Rajoy, who lost to Zapatero in 2004, says he would not revoke gay-partner benefits, he has vowed not to subsume them under the word marriage. Pedro Zerolo, a Socialist leader and a key architect of Zapatero's reforms, finds such qualms misplaced. "Marriage has always been used as a political tool: slaves couldn't marry, blacks couldn't marry whites. There was even a law in the 15th century that comedians couldn't marry because they weren't serious. If your rights don't have the same name, they don't have the same protection...
...lived in a modest, $40-a-month apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, told his friends he'd given art up for chess and philosophical writing. He said he believed in "masterly inactivity." Indeed, he, Picabia and Ray shared a talent for cerebral sloth. They all thought up endless word games that boil down to jokes about sex. This too was art. The Tate Modern exhibition is dense with doodles and scraps full of dark joie de vivre...
...home 8.) You see someone playing on an iPhone in class 9.) You see someone in class Facebook stalking someone you know—double shot if it’s you 10.) You see a red Longchamp or WIB canvas bag—double if you hear the word, “WIB-ternship” 11.). You hear the phrase “I was soooo blackout last night” 12.) Somebody references a crazy acronym like OCEAAAAAN 13.) Someone references their thesis (double shot if they use the specific number of pages they?...
...requirements for PHE, she notes, include learning to teach a 50-minute workshop nearly word for word...