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...almost exclusively in zoolike safari parks. "India is letting the tiger slip through its fingers," says Belinda Wright, director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India. "It's going to be one of the biggest conservation debacles the world has ever known." Globally, the tiger's future looks similarly bleak. A major study released last month by the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, the World Wildlife Fund and Washington's Smithsonian National Zoological Park reports that tigers now occupy an area 41% smaller than a decade ago. The report warns that, over the next 20 years, tigers are poised...
...bleak as it now looks, it's not entirely out of the question. The chances are greater in Lebanon, where there are actors with a clear interest in taming Hizballah. As in past flare-ups on the border, coming to terms will almost surely require a third-party interlocutor. "It could be the Red Cross or the Germans, the French, maybe a special adviser to Kofi Annan," says an Israeli intelligence official...
Three days into their mission, the transfer case in her five-ton truck "just busted"--and she and her sergeant were stranded. For a few bleak heartbeats, it looked as if her little girl's fear was real. Then a humvee swerved off the road, and the driver beckoned to her. "Get in." It was Private First Class Lori Ann Piestewa, her best friend. The sergeant hopped in another truck, and they rolled on. A Hopi from Arizona who had been Jessica's roommate at Fort Bliss, Texas, Lori was recovering from an injured shoulder and had been given...
...performances he elicited, especially from women; in Los Angeles. Known for his affairs with Rita Hayworth and Bette Davis, he juggled the egos of rivals Davis and Miriam Hopkins in Old Acquaintance and pressed a skeptical Ida Lupino to abandon makeup to play a pushy older sister in the bleak 1943 drama The Hard Way?a film that won Lupino accolades. "My strong points were my relationships with the actors," Sherman said. "My weak points were accepting assignments when I should have said...
...didn't exactly have the funds for concerts. There was a time when the only joy I got was recording my outgoing answering-machine messages. My roommate and I left a message once describing when we had no heat, no water, and the fly-paper situation was bleak. It ended up being the message that the record company heard when they called to sign me. I was mortified...