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...down to Old Faithful. The Obamas had lunch and views of the famous geyser, most likely oblivious to the ripple effect caused by extensive security measures for their visit on the Park's busy, fee-free weekend. On the narrow two-lane highway between Old Faithful and Midway Geyser Basin, however, motor traffic came to a standstill, eventually backing up vehicles for nearly two miles...
After a hearty three-course supper, we took to our beds under fly tents in the knowledge that we would be up at 5:30 a.m., before the heat of the day, for our first hike. Woken with a cup of tea and a basin of hot, if muddy, water we set off, following the course of the Ewaso Nyiro river and other lugga (dry riverbeds...
...were part of a government program to send minority workers to the coast. "They can't get work in their own province, so they go to the far corner of the country to seek jobs," says Dru Gladney, an expert on Islam in China and president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College. "They are recruited by the government, and then they feel like government doesn't defend and protect them. They feel discriminated against. They can't win at home and they can't win far afield...
...Observations from one "climate witness," a farmer in Kenya's Mara Basin: "When I was young, we used to have regular rains, but now it rains any time of the year. These changes started about 20 years ago. Food production in the area has gone down because people are not sure when to plant, and even when they plant, they may not get rains at the right time. Farming in our area is not only for our food, we depend on agriculture for income too. Some people have even had to resort to food donations from the government, something that...
...imagined what the yards would ultimately become.GRABBING FOR LANDFor decades, land in Cambridge had been in high demand, so much so that even as Harvard and the MTA negotiated, a bill came before the Massachussetts state legislature proposing the construction of a 40-acre platform over the Charles River Basin near MIT, which would provide space for “apartments, research firms, or other industrial buildings”—and would expand the tax base for the City.The land’s desirability meant that Cambridge real estate tended to carry a hefty price...