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Relentless slaughter and overfishing will drive sharks, the top predators in the sea, to the brink of extinction [ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 11]. If the scientific community and the world at large do not act quickly enough to reverse the trend, there will be an ecological catastrophe. We humans have come to be "nature's most fearsome predators," but what will happen when there is hardly anything left to keep the ecosystem in balance? FRED CESAR Fort Lauderdale...
...AVIV: Just as the two peace partners are pulling back from the brink of conflict, Israel has been angered by a display of Holocaust denial on Palestinian television. A cultural affairs show, aired last week, featured a claim by the host that that the Jews "exaggerate what the Nazis did to them," and profit from it by inflating the number of victims. David Bar-Illan, a top adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, replied: "It is regrettable that an official outlet of the Palestinian Authority has stooped to Holocaust denial, coupled with an allusion to Jewish venality and greed...
...sharply limited resources. Federal aid to cities has fallen sharply in the past 20 years, and urban tax bases have eroded as businesses and affluent residents have fled to the suburbs. Since the mid-1970s, when New York and other big cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, mayors have had to work hard just to stay afloat: they literally can no longer afford to preside over bloated bureaucracies or coddle unions at contract time. "There's just a different set of problems mayors are facing today," says Barnard College political science professor Ester Fuchs. "If they want to have...
SEOUL: With millions of North Koreans on the brink of starvation and South Korea's government being reshuffled, today's peace talks between the two Koreas couldn't come at a more critical time. United Nations relief teams report that North Korea's drought threatens a deadly famine on the scale seen recently in Ethiopia and Somalia. Meanwhile, South Korea's president today ousted half his cabinet, explaining the move as an effort to better manage economic policies and ensure fair presidential elections in December. Breakthroughs are not expected as North and South Korea sit down with China...
SEOUL: With millions of North Koreans on the brink of starvation and South Korea's government being reshuffled, today's peace talks between the two Koreas couldn't come at a more critical time. United Nations relief teams report that North Korea's drought threatens a deadly famine on the scale seen recently in Ethiopia and Somalia. Meanwhile, South Korea's president today ousted half his cabinet, explaining the move as an effort to better manage economic policies and ensure fair presidential elections in December. Breakthroughs are not expected as North and South Korea sit down with China...