In the Independent, Rupert Cornwell describes how, for the American public, Obama's response to the oilspill is implicitly 'violating the assumption that the man in the Oval Office is omnipotent'. Hard to imagine a stupider assumption.
See the Economist's review of The Icarus Syndrome.
Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
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The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to
valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have
been key...
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