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When Islam Karimov became the president of Uzbekistan in 1990, his country was officially called the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and was part of the USSR. In 1991 he declared Uzbekistan an independent state and maintained his presidency in an election that, according to every international group that monitors elections, was fixed. That has been [...] Lately the U.S. Federal Government has been making a lot of noise about green fuel. It started with President Bush’s comment about “switch grass” in his State of the Union Address. He got a few chuckles out of that. While we’ve all heard of using corn to make ethanol, and the importance of trading our [...] Enrichment is a process that uses networks of machine centrifuges, which spin uranium hexafluoride gas into low-enriched uranium for civilian power plants and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons fuel, depending on the duration of the process. National Public Radio photo: eugene When most of us think of the Galapagos Islands, we think of Mother Nature, herself. It is here, 600 miles from mainland Ecuador, where Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution. And today, the Galapagos Archipelago continues to support 5,000 different species of plants and animals. The Archipelago is 430 kilometers long and [...] The people of West Marin are serious about their environmental conservation. Rich in history, the area was developed, built-up, and re-developed for over a hundred years. But in 1971 that came to a halt. The Master Plan developed for West Marin in 1964 promised a different future for the region. It included coastal resorts, airstrips, [...] |
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