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The gas has always been there, of course, trapped deep underground in countless tiny bubbles, like frozen spills of seltzer water between thin layers of shale rock.
Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers - NYTimes.com
The Pakistani public, long skeptical of American goals in and the Muslim world, is now outraged over Washington’s insistence that the authorities release a former United States Special Forces soldier charged with killing two Pakistani men last month . In this instance, as always, ’s tumultuous news media is the prism through which policy is reflected to the people, who have found themselves at the center of America’s struggle against terrorism. So far, the picture has not been pretty: the demonized the Muslim news media; Muslim journalists returned the favor.
Inside the Muslim (Journalist’s) Mind - Op-Chart - NYTimes.com
The movement that ended President Hosni Mubarak’s thirty year autocratic rule not only has created a spectacular breakthrough for Egyptian democracy, it has bequeathed a priceless gift to the rest of us in every part of the planet. For eighteen days the Egyptian people carried out an unarmed revolution with determination, creativity, and a daring willingness to risk. They marched, they improvised, they prayed, they connected with one another.
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Island Birds + Invading Boa = Trouble in Paradise - NYTimes.com
For thousands of years, human mobility has brought all manner of species to isolated islands and regions, with the result being powerfully disrupted ecosystems.