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...river basins....
...The ethno-nationalism that threatens to tear Ethiopia apart and destabilise the Horn of Africa (the Big Read, November 19; FT View, November 20; Rachman Review, November 26 and Opinion, FT.com, November...
...Bison corrals have steel guardrails, of the kind that line highways, because the animals could simply rip a wooden fence apart with their horns....
...There are attempts to bring back the big spenders....
...Market-watchers expect this financing squeeze to trigger a wave of mergers among smaller companies in the Permian Basin and other shale-oil regions....
...Leakey’s most ambitious idea for the Turkana Basin is to set up a museum of human evolution there....
...Ten countries make up its basin, with 238m people reliant on its waters and verdant banks....
...Thus we came to watch at close quarters as the big grey beasts batted their extraordinarily long eyelashes, contracted the sphincter muscles in their ears, bared their ginormous yellow teeth, stood up, lay...
...Indeed, ExxonMobil of the US believes the next big shale frontier is in Argentina....
...In 2009, driven by the diminishing prospect of big finds in mature and emerging basins, frontier plays were the only category to register an increase in wells drilled on the year before, from 81 to 115 in...
...It also has exploration rights for a second block in the Lamu basin....
...“It’s an international syndicate and not just in Somalia – the big heads who mastermind it are outside....
...The first thing to go into operation in a desert camp is the kitchen tent, equipped with a couple of gas burners on a trestle table and two large copper basins....
...I ate a plastic-wrapped “Berry Horn” Danish. And I thought: “This trip might just go right.” Then the car didn’t start. The local garage was good, though....
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