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...Thomas Jefferson was so alarmed, he considered making an alliance with Britain to drive the French out. But when the French troops en route to occupying Louisiana died of yellow fever in Haiti, Napoléon decided to cut his losses and sold the territory to the U.S. for the bargain price of $15 million. By 1861, however, Napoléon's nephew Napoléon III was ready to try another New World power play, sending an army to Mexico to collect debts and later installing an Austrian archduke as emperor. The U.S., distracted by the Civil War, did nothing at first...
...marriage is one of the chief conservative counts against her. Whereas her supporters see a messy union that Hillary has valiantly preserved under extreme provocation, conservatives see a corrupt bargain. She has certainly been as much enabler as victim of Bill's infidelities; her instinct has always been to attack any of his paramours who go public...
Conservationists will also have to strike that kind of bargain with the world's governments if they hope to preserve threatened species. But the face-off between environment and development has been a perennial battle - and perhaps, for primate conservationists, an unwinnable one - given that the countries that are home to highly endangered primates, like Vietnam, are also home to developing economies. That's a discouraging reality for primatologists and for the grey-shanked douc, whose forest habitat in Vietnam is being destroyed at the rate of the 10,000 hectares per year to make way for logging and agriculture...
...They decided on a 2-year-old gelding from New Zealand that cost $65,000 - a bargain in Hong Kong, where horses often go for four times as much. The punters named him Garden Party, but he was no party animal. For a year, Lo and his partners fronted the cash, close to $30,000, to stable Garden Party and pay his livery and training fees. But on the eve of the horse's first race, medical scans revealed he had a nonlethal cancer. He couldn't race in Hong Kong. Dismayed, Lo and his partners shipped Garden Party home...
...plant even at a loss, neither waiting for government help nor cowering before al-Qaeda. Lobbying the Marines at Friday's meeting to clear a road alongside his ice plant connecting him to the adjacent district of Shuhada, Idham said he is snatching up land and industrial facilities at bargain prices from owners who can no longer wait for the government compensation. "I know Fallujah will be back," he said. "It will prosper even better than it used to. Just wait...