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...security at the country's nuclear power plants and weapons sites--and the chilling discovery in Afghanistan of evidence that al-Qaeda may try to target them--little has been done to lock down the sites or to clear the air corridors above them. In October the FAA briefly banned aircraft from flying below 18,000 ft. and within 10 miles of 86 sensitive sites, including several nuclear power plants, but the ban was lifted in November and has not been reinstated...
...surprisingly, these hunts have their critics. A handful of states ban or restrict the practice, and a pair of bills are pending in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to prohibit the interstate sale of exotic animals for hunts. Supporters of the hunts object, arguing that exotics are bred in sufficient numbers to support the industry and that many surplus zoo animals could not survive in the wild anyway. Even to some outdoorsmen, however, canned hunts are beginning to look like no hunt at all. "I started hunting when I was 7 and didn't kill my first deer...
Concerns such as these are prompting governments to act. More states are being pressed to ban or restrict hunting in enclosures. The House bill, which parallels one introduced in the Senate by Delaware's Joseph Biden, would not drop the hammer on the hunts but would give Washington a way to control the animal traffic...
...That the world needs an e-graveyard is no surprise. For every new technology born, an old one is laid to rest, and new technologies come along rapidly in the information age. But a report issued last week by the Basel Action Network (BAN), a Seattle-based NGO, sheds new light on where old computers go to die?and on the environmental consequences. E-waste, electronic gear containing hazardous material, is routinely sold and shipped from the industrialized world to developing countries in Asia for recycling. It's a messy business that "leaves the poorer peoples of the world with...
...Whatever the source of the new bloodlust, it is eroding the Maoists' earlier popular support. Villagers initially found the Maoists' opposition to the corrupt and self-serving ruling ?lite appealing and approved of their campaigns to ban alcohol and hashish and end age-old discrimination against women. That support is now all but gone, opening the avenue for Deuba to win back the public. Last week he promised sweeping social, economic and constitutional reforms, building on a package of land-reform measures passed last summer. But in the short term, the war continues to escalate. And while the eventual winner...