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Turkmenistan is one of the world’s most closed and repressive countries--a small nation of approximately 5 million people, though recent estimates are much lower. It is located in Central Asia and is bordered by the
¶Introduction to the Agas Map Our new (as of the beginning of 2015) implementation of the Agas Map is based on the OpenLayers library. It presents the map as a zoomable, rotatable tiled image with several hundred locations plotted on it. In the default view, the locations are initially hidden; you can show them by checking checkboxes in the navigation panel which appears at the top right of the map. Locations in the navigation panel are sorted into categories; click on a category name to expand it ...
“Something just blew up!” Cora Gonzales was in her room on Jan. 4 when she heard her father yell. In the evenings he watches TV while sitting by the living room window, and that’s where she found him, looking outside and not at the tube. The rest of the family quickly joined them and they stared through the picture window as flames shot into the night sky from a nearby well pad. This particular fire was uncommon. That’s because it was quiet. “Usually whenever things blow up,” she says, “we can feel the house shake and also hear a boom.”