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ORANGUTANS: Months of drought and fire have brought starvation to Borneo's apes. Many babies, too weak to cling to their mothers, fall out of the trees...
...forest fires raging on the island of Borneo have been giving Southeast Asians alarming flashbacks to the Great Haze of 1997. In some ways this year's blazes, stoked by the drought caused by El Nino, have been even worse, spreading into remote reaches of the virgin rain forest. Since January, hundreds of fires have claimed 700,000 acres of woodland, casting a pall of smoke over the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. While recent rains have quenched many of the fires, the situation remains volatile. Moreover, the whole world may feel...
Males have paired sex organs--each called a hemipenis, or half penis--hidden in the base of the tail. Some species, such as common king snakes, deploy these alternatively in successive matings--perhaps, says Greene, to allow more frequent copulation. When Borneo's yellow-lipped sea- kraits breed, as many as half a dozen males may pile on a lone female. Copulation is usually brief but can last more than a day for Western diamondbacks (probably to reduce the female's exposure to rival males). Female snakes too deploy cunning reproductive strategies. North American pit vipers, for example, store sperm...
...company's market value was about $14 million, compared with its peak value of $4.5 billion last year. The bankruptcy will provide protection against a host of current and expected lawsuits against the company stemming from the gross overstatement of gold in its Busang mine on the island of Borneo. The company, which now faces a possible criminal investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said in a statement it wanted to show shareholders and creditors that the company's assets will remain intact despite the intensifying crisis...
...time our Republicans in Congress get through, Alaska and the rest of the U.S. will look the same as Borneo and Siberia. Then when bottom-line greed is finished, there will be enough unemployed, motivated citizens to homestead all those square miles and spend their lives pulling up stumps. EUGENE W. FOOTE Ocean Grove, New Jersey...