Posted by Matt in June 14th, 2008 |
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Water,
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India is using groundwater so rapidly that some areas have already run out. In a village in Rajasthan, the state sends in water by train.
TEJA KA BAS, India — Bhanwar Lal Yadav, once a cultivator of cucumber and wheat, has all but given up growing food. No more suffering through drought and the scourge [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 18th, 2008 |
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JUDGING from the news lately, Russia is well on its way to restoring that old Evil Empire image. Military parades have returned to Red Square. Key businesses are choked by corruption or are under state control. Journalists who probe too deeply turn up dead. And critics of the Kremlin are jailed, pushed out of elections [...]
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