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Mining for rare-earth metals has severe environmental consequences. Speaking with Elizabeth Kolbert, the journalist Vince Beiser says that the U.S. needs more of it. Munro kept quiet about the ...

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I was among those who chose the latter, which then entailed standing in a three-hour queue in Sydney while re-ticketing was done. Not the airline’s finest hour.