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...The most swashbuckling tale is told in Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation (Corsair £20/Pegasus Books $28.95) by writer and adventurer Leon McCarron....
...In the news Leon Black quits senior roles at Apollo Leon Black, who co-founded Apollo Global Management 30 years ago, is to relinquish his leadership positions at the investment firm, following an outcry...
...Smart reads The golden ticket Apollo Global Management’s Garry Parr has a hobby that keeps his boss, Leon Black, sweet....
...Most of the electricity in Colombia is hydro-generated, and low rainfall, high temperatures and lower oil and gas output have compounded troubles at key dams....
...A place where the sublime only ever arrived in summer — in huge cumulonimbus clouds that massed ahead of thunderstorms — and the only hills available were the tailings dams of the gold mines, tinted yellow...
...Leon Panetta, the former US defence secretary, said last year that a “cyber Pearl Harbor” might one day take place....
...We hope that other Brazilian dam builders will follow Odebrecht’s lead and make a similar decision,” Manuel Leon, an Ashaninka representative, said in a statement....
...Water reserves at the hydroelectric dam at Guri – the third-largest in the world, which provides three quarters of the country’s power – have fallen to emergency levels after the lowest rainfall in decades...
...Leon Westgate of Standard Bank said the US economic data confirmed that businesses had not started to re-stock inventories, only de-stocking at a slower pace....
...But our understandable obsession with recovery, in fields as diverse as drugs rehabilitation and economic policy, as my friend the psychotherapist Leon Redler argued recently in a presentation given for...
...Hundreds of Taliban fighters last month attacked the Kajaki dam in Helmand....
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