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...people who live and work around Tokiwadai will have to get by without Miyamoto looking out for them - and as the city closes down the kobans, omawari like him will become a vanishing breed in Tokyo. The government needs to cut its budget, but it will be a shame if cops like Miyamoto are lost in the process. "Police officers are always in uniform so there's usually some distance from us," says Kawano the grocer. "But he wasn't like that. He was more like a pal." He was also a hero. Reported by Yuki Oda/Tokyo
...journey of the Lost Boys is poignant and engrossing, but it's not unfamiliar. Beah, however, is a new breed; he's not just a victim but a perpetrator. For almost the first time, we are seeing life from behind the dead eyes of a killer child. And life is not good. How many people did he kill? "I really have no idea," Beah says during an interview in Paris, where he is taking some time off before his publicity tour. "I never thought to keep count. We attacked civilians, villagers--anyone the commander deemed was an enemy; we killed...
...such lengths to breed pandas if the threat of extinction has eased? Harkness says national pride in the program's success and bureaucratic self-preservation are factors. There also may be an economic motive. Zoos are eager to donate money to China in exchange for the right to display pandas. In the U.S., four zoos, including the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., are each paying $10 million over a decade for their Wolong-bred bears. But Zhang denies the breeding program is aimed at raising money. He notes that the government restricts the number of overseas groups the Wolong center...
...prayers for his recovery. Barbaro himself endured the ordeal with fortitude and poise, with patience and even sweetness. Alas, facing yet another painful siege of laminitis last week, Barbaro was put to sleep by lethal injection, but not before he came to represent the noblest qualities of his breed--as the humans around him came to represent the best of theirs...
Treeflights.com is just one beneficiary of a growing environmental subindustry known as "carbon offsetting." Typically, one of this new breed of companies first calculates the amount of greenhouse gases an individual or business generates by flying, driving or heating and lighting a home or office. Customers then voluntarily pay that firm to invest in projects that will cut carbon emissions by an equal amount. (Energy-hungry Americans generate about 20 tons of CO2 per capita per year; Britons, about half that). So for anything between $4 and $40 to offset the equivalent of one ton of CO2, a consumer...