Gorge

Ragali Gorge

James Nachtwey's searing photos of war

Amid searing wind and boiling water.

Amid searing wind and boiling water.

Ragali Gorge (Item 4)

They always spit in the gorge.

What were you shooting in the gorge?

Why did you gorge on all that water?

We have prepared for the faithless chains, and yokes, and a Searing Fire.

We have prepared for the faithless chains, and yokes, and a Searing Fire.

Now, here is the bridge, over a deep gorge.

Up the gorge to the left is the bridge.

You're always ready when there's something to gorge on.

Get across the gorge and don't fire unless I do.

They will eat from it and gorge with it their bellies.

They will eat from it and gorge with it their bellies.

The oldest stone tools are choppers from the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa.

All dug up just west of here in Olduvai Gorge, by the Leakey family.

And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is. My gorge rises at it.

Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat

Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat

I wish they'd stray off far enough to fall down about 2,000 feet of gorge.

I won't be taking you to the high Arctic, the life of the Inuit, or to the searing sands of the Sahara.

We had fantastic friends and we saw the wonders of the world, like Kilimanjaro, Serengeti and the Olduvai Gorge.

And he doesn't need spices, because he's got this potpourri of herbs and flavors that his geese love to gorge on.

Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion whatever their differences are similar technologies, designed to efficiently connect and manage any group of people.

A traffic accident in which a coach fell into a gorge took place in Crimea on August 11, leading to 5 deaths and 13 injuries.

To take advantage of when the temperature drops in the fall, geese and ducks gorge on food to prepare for the harsh realities of winter.

Here you are, chained up like a dog, waiting for the executioner to rip out your nails, gorge you with water, sew your eyelids shut, break a few bones!

Dr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital all low tech hacks and donated supplies drives home the challenge of doing basic health care there.

I had the chance to see one of these rivers and the proposed site of one of the country s most controversial dams on a recent trek through the stunning Tiger Leaping Gorge, north of the town of Lijiang in northern Yunnan. On its descent from the roof of the world, the Jinsha River, tributary of the mighty Yangtze, cascades through this ten mile gorge on its way to Shanghai and the East China Sea.

Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18 minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world's psychics Prove what you do is real, and I'll give you a million dollars.

Last year, I visited the main jumping off point on the US Mexican border El Sasabe on the Sonora Arizona border. In the month of May, before the summer's searing and deadly heat, local authorities estimated a daily average of 1,000 migrants attempting to cross.

Dianchi Lake near the provincial capital, Kunming, is so shrunken and polluted that the city faces a serious water shortage. Water from the Tiger Leaping Gorge will be diverted to flush out Dianchi Lake, without which Kunming will not prosper.

Noting with deep concern that the majority of the Afghan people are unable to enjoy fully their human rights and fundamental freedoms owing to the accumulated effects of warfare, further aggravated by ongoing fighting and destruction, in particular by the Taliban, searing poverty, profound underdevelopment, and the policies and practices of the authorities,

Some 10 million of them still live in poverty. At Tiger Leaping Gorge, where a mere 100,000 residents will have to be relocated, residents fear that they will be ordered to move up the steep mountainsides to open marginal land at 6,000 to 9,000 feet.

Indeed, local governments appear less afraid of Beijing s bite than before. When boundaries were negotiated for Three Parallel Rivers Park designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2003 local authorities won a fight to exclude Tiger Leaping Gorge, knowing that a dam there would triple tax revenues.

The political stakes are high, and China s hydropower interests are strong. Environmental activists who are currently battling to halt damming and flooding in the culturally and scenically renowned region of the Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan are battling hydropower kingpin Li Xiaopeng, son of former Premier Li Peng.

The sun was high above white crowned Jade Dragon Snow Mountain when my guide pointed down the gorge at the brown waters churning thousands of feet below. That s where they will build the dam, Xiao Chun, a 17 year old Naxi, one of Yunnan s 22 ethnic minorities, said.

Indeed, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has declared that he wants to see more scientific development in China s approach to its problems, and even called for a temporary halt of the Salween (Nu) River dam. Environmentalists were even permitted to take part in a public hearing on the Tiger Leaping Gorge project, a first for China.

But it is individual training and the ability to make split second decisions in a fluid situation that are required in anti terrorist operations. Incidentally, when one such anti terrorist operation was suggested in the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia, Putin decided against it, understanding that instead of eliminating terrorists it would likely turn into a full blown traditional war.

Dam opponents, including vocal indigenous environmental groups, have waged a seemingly successful battle to protect Tiger Leaping Gorge and the Salween (the Nu River). In early 2005, three years after a new law on environmental impact assessments (EIA s) was passed, the State Environmental Protection Bureau (SEPA), ordered the halt of 30 large projects, including 26 hydropower plants that had failed to submit proper EIA s.