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London’s ‘Little America’ Is No More. What’s Taking Its Place?

From the Eagle Bar on the top floor of the new Chancery Rosewood Hotel in Mayfair, the views across London are unobstructed, save for a gilded aluminum eagle, its wings spread wide, which crowns the midcentury modern building that once housed the United States Embassy to the United Kingdom. The Americans pulled up stakes in […]

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The Gateway to Hell Is Closing After 50 Years of Flames

An infamous fire that’s been burning in a Turkmenistan desert since 1971, dubbed the “Gateway to Hell,” is finally losing steam. Or, more accurately, losing methane that has fueled it for over 50 years. The fire started when Soviet scientists accidentally drilled into a natural gas pocket in the Karakum Desert. Their solution to the […]

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