Greening the Sahara

In light of my last few blog entries, which have been a bit bleak, I'd like to offer a more positive story about the Middle East. I recently visited the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, where Dr. Farouk El-Baz is working to transform the Middle East in the best possible way -- making the deserts into arable land by using space-age technology to find ground water.

You can find my story on Nature.com, in its new Boston hub section.

Greening the Sahara

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More Bad News, But It's Good We're Talking About It Anyway...

"Sobering" is probably too tame of a word to apply to the latest from Michael Scheuer on the current status of the "War on Terror." It's a keen-eyed view of some of the most desperate flaws in the current conflict -- most of which represent deep foundational problems in definitions and expectations.

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