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...Reserve, for example, faces pressure from human development and is barely large enough to support its wild bear population, let alone additional pen-reared animals like Xiang Xiang. Then there's the problem that, with the exception of ungulates like deer, animals raised in captivity are rarely able to adjust to the rigors of the wild. Efforts to reintroduce orangutans into Indonesia's fast-disappearing forests have met with scant success, for example. Even Keiko the killer whale (the inspiration for the Free Willy movies) ended up in a Norwegian harbor, cadging food from fishermen and tourists. Says Jim Harkness...
...torque--good for a 0-to-60-m.p.h. time of 4.9 sec. And Jag loaded up on high-tech gadgetry like shift paddles on the steering wheel and parking assist (via a video screen). Buyers may also opt for adaptive cruise control, which uses radar to adjust the car's speed on the basis of the proximity of vehicles in front...
...issue. There is anxiety about the impact of low-cost imports of products like shoes and textiles from countries like China, but Europe has also benefited from these low-cost consumer goods. That is why we have to make the case for openness and to help individuals and communities adjust to inevitable change...
...have a good sense of how this is unfolding. So it's not as if there is a date, at six months, we'll know and then we have to do something dramatic. This is going to happen over a period of time. So you've got time to adjust. You've got time to go to them and say, you're not getting it done...
...confidence in the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency could erode rapidly.” Gernot Doppelhofer, a university lecturer and fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, wrote in an e-mail that he believes that the current account will eventually adjust. “Differences in productivity growth affect the real exchange rate in the long run,” he wrote. To respond to the growing deficits, President Bush’s administration should curtail discretionary spending, he added. Feldstein said he did not believe the dollar needed to fall immediately...