Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Reading
Homeland Security
Spurred on by Liviya, I'm reading Bush Unveils Homeland Security Plan:NYTimes this morning. "The strategy, the first of its kind in U.S. history, says its goals are to prevent terrorism, reduce vulnerability to attacks and minimize damage from any that do occur."
(Also, Bush to unveil Homeland Security strategy: CNN).
Iceland
An Icelandic Battle of Wildlife Versus Voltage. "North of VATNAJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland — This is Europe's second-largest wilderness, a high plateau of lakes and virgin rivers, jagged canyons and snowy former volcanoes linked by swards of treeless tundra inhabited by thousands of reindeer and geese.
It is also the alpine spillway for billions of gallons of glacial melt that Iceland's national power company plans to use in the $3 billion Karahnjukar Hydropower Project, an undertaking so big it equals nearly a third of the country's gross domestic product."

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