• Most observers see the land-grab as an expression of desperation on Georgia's part.

    ECONOMIST: Georgia opens a northern front in its battle with drought

  • Canada, Japan and maybe even cheeky California will soon join Kyoto-land (see article).

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

  • Trainer Enzo Calzaghe - who has been with Rees since he was nine - was delighted to see him land his headline chance.

    BBC: Rees wants springboard to Hatton

  • The survey revealed that while 53% of Americans ages 18-64 still see America as the land of opportunity, 41% said the American Dream is lost.

    FORBES: Have Americans Lost Faith In The 'American Dream'?

  • Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity -- until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.

    BBC: Obama inauguration: Full text

  • If approved, the seafront scheme would see the removal of amusements and the land-train garage to make way for the new attractions.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Dorset | Last chance for surf reef debate

  • Britain can decide to strengthen bilateral ties with the world, but the world must see a matching interest in a far-off land of just 60m people.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • His moves have also calmed investors' nerves to some extent, something that other debt-laden giants like Sino Land (see story page 49) had yet to accomplish.

    CNN: ASIA ON HIS MIND

  • Further loss of Arctic ice will see radiation absorbed by darker seawater and snow-free land, potentially warming the Earth's climate at an even faster rate than current observational data indicates.

    BBC: Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk

  • If you were to drive west out of Baton Rouge to Lafayette and Lake Charles, you will see that most of the land south of I-10 is some form of undeveloped wetland or swamp.

    CNN: Your e-mails: Nature vs. commerce

  • Stalkers see their activities as an important part of land management - a key method of regulating the number of deer in the wild.

    BBC: Why huge Devon stag Emperor was killed

  • In the time since, President Obama has compared Dr. King to Moses -- a visionary leader who did not live to see the Promised Land.

    WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

  • To pass through is to see mostly abandoned or shuttered buildings in a bleak no-man's land under the watchful gaze of Israeli surveillance balloons.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Once the information is gathered, the American people will finally be able to see the endemic, long- standing pattern of unlawful abuse of the most hallowed office in our land.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • The two packages of land - one at Homelands Farm 2, the other at Cleevelands - could see about 1, 000 new homes built alongside the 450 homes currently being put up at the site known as Homelands 1.

    BBC: Housing plan for Bishops Cleeve area sparks court battle

  • As he tried to rebuild the country, the new President Asif Zardari was reluctant to listen to American advice, insisting, for example, on a land-for-peace truce with Taliban militants in the Swat valley (see Pakistan's Mistaken Strategy) that lasted a matter of weeks.

    FORBES: Ambassador To Pakistan's Economy

  • The Italy captain was caught in no-man's land early on, allowing Mats Hummels to poke goalwards only to see Andrea Pirlo scramble the ball off the line.

    CNN: Balotelli double sends Italy through to Euro 2012 final

  • "It could either be reports of whales and dolphins people see by chance but preferably we would like people to commit to boat-based watches or two-hour land-based watches, " said Ms Gibas.

    BBC: 158 dolphins and whales spotted in weekend Sea Watch

  • "There are firms bucking the trend, like Jaguar Land Rover who are positioned well in the emerging markets, and you see that those high-end brands aimed at richer customers are not doing as badly, " said Mr Stadler.

    BBC: European car sales fall again in March

  • Land-owning conservation groups and government agencies are meeting on Tuesday in a move which could see parts of the countryside re-opened for public access.

    BBC: Countryside talks over disease

  • If you go out from Earth up into space, you see our entire planet is a living organism - be it in the sea with all the fish, on the land with all the reptiles and mammals and insects, but the way man is behaving at the moment needs attention.

    BBC: Norfolk - Chris Skinner's wildlife haven

  • Which is why the 2011 bonus for Stephen Hester, RBS's chief executive, is such a lightning rod for discontent in the UK, even though he was actually running a commercial property company, British Land, when the bankers' risk-taking party was at its frenzied peak (and see my post of last night for more on this).

    BBC: The rich, worried about inequality?

  • The abundance of exercise features can also be attributed to affordable land, making it more feasible to install big-ticket items like swimming pools, Ms. See adds.

    WSJ: Where a House Can Raise Your Heart Rate | Spread Sheet

  • Optimists say that with a growing cadre of elderly part-timers on small and unproductive plots of land, even the civil servants in the farm ministry will see that the system is unsustainable and be forced to act if only to save the sector on which their influence depends.

    ECONOMIST: Japan's farmers

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