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Wildlife advocates see two primary solutions. One is to hire more rangers, which seems unlikely in the current budget-cutting climate. The other is to impose tougher federal laws, which now assign penalties as high as $250,000 for felonies and up to five years' imprisonment. Law enforcers also enlist % state laws to prosecute poachers in national parks, but state statutes vary notoriously. Wyoming, for instance, regulates hunters down to the number of shotgun pellets allowed in heavily hunted areas; while Alabama's idiosyncratic "coon on a log" law is more liberal, permitting the maintenance of up to 10 captured...
...soon appoint panels to look deep into the workings of the intelligence community. "This could lead to dramatic changes," says a member of the President's foreign intelligence advisory board, a group of White House appointees chaired by former Defense Secretary Les Aspin. President Clinton is expected to assign the 12-member panel in early August to evaluate the spy process from top to bottom. Yet that plan doesn't please John Warner of Virginia, the senior G.O.P. member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who wants an outside group for the task...
...better plan would be to allow each blocking group to list all 12 houses in order to preference and assign them accordingly. This utilitarian system would achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of Harvard undergraduates...
Perhaps you might assign him to cover some women's sports, so that he might see and report first-hand that our Radcliffe athletes posses dignity, courage and integrity. David Filippi...
...officer of the Navy, Admiral Jeremy Boorda, promised to speed up plans to assign women to all surface vessels and perhaps even allow them aboard submarines, the Navy's last all-male bastion. "The goal is all ships; the goal is everything," commented Boorda, who also said a repeat of the Tailhook sexual-assault scandal "would simply not be tolerated...