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...food pantry where they volunteer in exchange for food. She sets aside money in meticulous expense ledgers for Jonathan's outings with a local teacher who teaches him socialization skills, and a little more for his twice-monthly speech therapy. But the Eshelmans' world may be on the brink of collapse because of new federal rules that could take away Jonathan's $74-a-week disability check. "It's frightening," says Eshelman, who is worried that with her two-person household's income cut almost a third, she won't be able to meet her house payments...
...room to mezzanine, hallway to bedroom conference call. Every so often, rumpled lawyers would emerge with wildly divergent claims about the progress of the fractious tobacco talks: a settlement was imminent, negotiators had hit the worst impasse since the start of deliberations on April 3, talks were on the brink of collapse. Wait! There's a settlement! (Well, almost...) Finally, at 3:30 p.m. last Friday, a chorus of state attorneys general gathered around a microphone in the ANA's ballroom to congratulate themselves on what Mississippi's Michael Moore called "the most historic public-health achievement in history...
...Convention on Trade in Endangered Species voted overwhelmingly to relax the seven-and-a-half year ban on ivory trade to allow the three countries a one-time sale of 59 tons of stockpiled elephant tusks to Japan. While Africa's elephants no longer teeter on the brink of extinction, environmental "ele-friends" warn that the vote may mark a return to the horrific pre-ban poaching levels that saw ivory hunters slaughtering nearly 70,000 African elephants each year. Officials in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana, where 30 percent of Africa's estimated 580,000 elephants live, scoff that such...
...Norwegian scientific rocket sent aloft to observe the aurora borealis. The Norwegians had dutifully notified the Russian embassy in Oslo, but the word was never relayed to the military. "For a while," says Sergei Yushenkov, a member of the Russian parliament's Defense Committee, "the world was on the brink of nuclear...
...still be near the brink, despite the end of the cold war and the dismantling of thousands of warheads, because the people and the machines that control Russia's nuclear arsenal are being neglected. Like the rest of the armed forces, the soldiers in the Strategic Nuclear Forces (SNF) are largely unpaid, unfed and unhappy. The delicate computer networks at the heart of the nuclear force are not being maintained properly, and the safeguards that prevent accidental or unauthorized launches are fraying...