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Efforts to delimit a reserve for the Yanomami – who inhabited the west of the state and southern Venezuela – had begun in the late 1970s, stimulated in part by the pioneering reporting of the British journalist Norman Lewis. The Yanomami had suffered badly from Amazon expansionism. In the early 1970s, when the government decided to build a road
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Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The twenty-seven-year-old former computer programmer deliberately styled himself after his hero, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for whom he briefly served before being arrested and thrown in the Camp Bucca prison in 2006. Now he sought to replicate his mentor’s look, from the shaggy black hair, cap, and beard to his penchant for posing unmasked for cameras
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