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...worst fears were realized on Aug. 19. At about 2:45 p.m., Phillips decided to cite Drega for the large rust holes in his red truck, parked at LaPerle's IGA Supermarket north of town. Drega got out of the pickup truck and shot Phillips with the AR-15. Lord, who had followed Phillips into the lot, was shot getting out of his cruiser, first from a distance, then at closer range. Phillips, who was wounded, tried to climb an embankment, but Drega returned and shot him several more times with a 9-mm pistol...
Relentless slaughter and overfishing will drive sharks, the top predators in the sea, to the brink of extinction [ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 11]. If the scientific community and the world at large do not act quickly enough to reverse the trend, there will be an ecological catastrophe. We humans have come to be "nature's most fearsome predators," but what will happen when there is hardly anything left to keep the ecosystem in balance? FRED CESAR Fort Lauderdale...
...years I have tried to persuade my Chinese mother-in-law not to make shark-fin soup because of the overfishing of sharks [ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 11]. She feels the "health benefits" of eating shark fins are more important than the shark's survivability. Sharply increasing prices have slowed down her use of shark fins, but, unfortunately, this soup is often a featured course at Chinese banquets. I suspect most consumers are ignorant of the plight of sharks or have the same cultural beliefs as my mother-in-law, beliefs that are hard to change. Unless farm-raised sharks become possible...
Bravo to Charles Krauthammer for asking why Israel should continue to negotiate with the Palestinians who utilize terror and violence [ESSAY, Aug. 11]! Someone finally has the nerve to tell it like it is. Let the U.S. send a message to Yasser Arafat that neither we nor Israel will deal with him or any other Palestinian until he controls the terrorists and ends their attacks, suicide or otherwise. ALLEN SOKOLOFF Bensalem...
...claim that the balanced-budget and tax-cut law "gives away something to just about everyone" [NATION, Aug. 11], but it's not true. The clear winners are the upper middle class and the rich. The tax benefits flow disproportionately to the wealthiest Americans. And I was horrified to read Daniel Kadlec's commentary arguing that the "victims" of this legislation are the "upper-income wage slaves." He describes an imaginary couple struggling to make ends meet on their $160,000-a-year income in their cramped $475,000 four-bedroom house. I don't know if Kadlec is serious...