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...entrepreneurialism that has spun the badly hit steppes of Inner Mongolia into a hub of green research. Both Chinese and foreign scientists are stationed throughout the province, working to kick-start restoration through the right balance of land rehabilitation and social responsibility. "We're working with subsistence farmers," says Brant Kirychuk, a manager for the China-Canada Agriculture Development Program. "We can't just say, 'Man, there's too many livestock on the land. Cut them back...
...said their clients have done nothing wrong. TIME reported Thursday that Foggo cleared Wilkes for at least one visit to CIA headquarters in the past year, and earlier in the week it reported that the man who had recommended Foggo for his job, CIA consultant and onetime Goss aide Brant Bassett, had on one occasion served as a paid consultant for Wilkes - though not while he was working at the CIA or in Congress for Goss...
...TIME.com reported Wednesday that Brant Bassett, an old CIA hand and Goss aide who helped recommend Foggo for his post as the CIA?s top administrator, had previously served as a paid consultant to Wilkes - though he was not working for Goss or the Agency at the time. Bassett was paid $5,000 in May 2000 as a consultant to Wilkes? ADCS Corp., according to disclosure forms Bassett filed when he was a House intelligence committee aide. While Goss, a former CIA case officer, chaired the intelligence committee, Bassett was a committee aide from mid-2000 until 2004, when...
...Central Intelligence Agency hand who was close to outgoing Director Porter Goss was previously a paid consultant to one of the defense contractors who allegedly bribed ex-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, according to government documents and a person familiar with the matter. The financial link between Brant Bassett - who served two stints at the CIA and recommended the controversial Kyle "Dusty" Foggo for a top agency post - and defense contractor Brent Wilkes could prove a further embarrassment to Goss in the wake of what sources in and out of government say are investigations by the CIA inspector general...
Humor in the face of adversity is something Australians regard as a national trait. And snippets of information that reached the public from the rescue mission at Beaconsfield gold mine, in northeast Tasmania, probably pumped more life into that notion. Miners Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, were trapped almost a kilometer underground when a small earthquake caused a rock fall in the mine on April 25. They spent five days entombed in darkness, with only a muesli bar to share between them, before rescuers using imaging equipment made the startling discovery that the pair were still alive. Webb...