It took a torturous three-year environmental review by state and federal authorities before Ivanpah received its license and the project is currently the subject of two lawsuits filed by an environmental organization and a Native American group over its impact on the imperiled desert tortoise and cultural artifacts.
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Once a Destiny's Child group member, the Houston native went solo in 2003 and has since released two platinum albums.
The Shanghai native, one of the founders of Greenland Group in 1992, had studied economics and management at Shanghai Agricultural Institute.
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Pat Donahue, hadn't thought Nuristan had much strategic value, so conventional forces hadn't been posted there, and no one had troubled to find out much about the native people, the Nuristanis, a distinct and outlying ethnic group within Afghanistan.
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An animal normally native to the American continent has been spotted in Buckinghamshire by a group of ramblers.
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Jeannette Seaver, a publisher and author of four cookbooks, joined the group a decade ago because of her love for her native French food.
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Relations between Korea and China have been soured by the murder of a Ming envoy to Korea and a group of exiled Koreans hope to restore ties between the two countries by returning to her native land a Chinese princess they have rescued in the desert.
The mall was initially headed by Dongguan native Alex Hu Guirong, who became a billionaire in the instant noodle business, and later sold to the Founders Group, a conglomerate set up by Peking University.
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