26 Outstanding Photos Of Earth From Space

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Quoted: The wide, smiling face of Sheikh Mohammed – the absolute ruler of Dubai – beams down on his creation. His image is displayed on every other building, sandwiched between the more familiar corporate rictuses of Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders. This man has sold Dubai to the world as the city of One Thousand and One Arabian Lights, a Shangri-La in the Middle East insulated from the dust-storms blasting across the region. He dominates the Manhattan-manqué skyline, beaming out from row after row of glass pyramids and hotels smelted into the shape of piles of golden coins. And there he stands on the tallest building in the world – a skinny spike, jabbing farther into the sky than any other human construction in history.

The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means

Quoted: An article by Mark Danner from The New York Review of Books, April 30, 2009

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An excellent article on Iran.

Quoted: Why the Iranians see themselves in a very different light

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Quoted: Andrew C. Revkin on climate change and sustainable living.