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See It While You Can

A Photo Gallery from Hasankeyf, Turkey The Southeastern Anatolian Project (GAP), Turkey's ambitious, 12-phase hydropower...

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Village of the Dammed

Part 6 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam. Our first...

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Dispatch from Batman

Part 5 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam. On the way to Hasankeyf, my companions and I stopped at Hotel Gap (named, actually, for GAP) in the industrial Kurdish city of Batman-a city that will soon be on the fringe of the new Ilisu reservoir...

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Culture Clash

Part 4 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam.\r\rBefore heading to Hasankeyf, the focus of the Ilisu Dam controversy, my traveling companions and I visited the small shiite village of Örtülü, in eastern Turkey, on the southwest side of Mount..\n

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Everything Is Not Consistently Illuminated

Part 3 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam. Very...

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Bridging the GAP

Part 2 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam. Self-defined...

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Ilisu: Making Waves

Part 1 of "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu...

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Strange Fruit

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Holden On

Anne Trubek, english professor at Oberlin College, fielded questions about Catcher in the Rye on NPR this weekend. She defended her suggestion...

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GOOD Weekend

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Three Years After Katrina

Anniversaries are a time for celebrating how we've grown, acknowledging the distances we've traversed, congratulating each other for the...

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Indie-pendant Party

Another good thing about Obama: the music. Last night in Denver, Mayor Gavin Newsom reminded us he was really really cool by organizing a legendary indie-rock bash for "young democrats," with a line-up featuring Nada Surf, Cold War Kids, Silversun Pickups and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and climaxing..

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What's Red Or Blue, And Green All Over

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Talk To The Hand

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That Sinking Feeling

Sinkholes are the result of water eating away bedrock and soil underground, causing the earth to drop out from under itself in vast depressions or...

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Nuclear Warhead + Paper Clip = Problem Solved By MacGyver

We were bowled over by a wave of shameless nostalgia mixed with a renewed sense of awe when we came across this very extensive (but not yet entirely comprehensive) List of Problems Solved by MacGyver.You likely remember the show-or its re-runs, sandwiched between "The Brady Bunch" and "Saved By the Bell"..

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