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...people would approve aggression against my country, Yugoslavia, if they had the right information about what's going on here. How can one explain dropping bombs near schools and hospitals or killing an old man in his cottage in the middle of nowhere? Who will build new houses for the ethnic Albanians and Serbs or give them new jobs in a poor country such as Yugoslavia? I fought hard against the Milosevic regime for years, and I still strongly believe in democracy. Unfortunately, the bombs NATO drops on my country are striking the Serbian democratic movement. VLADIMIR STAJIC Zemun, Yugoslavia...
...billion, and by human carelessness and commerce. In the 21st century, which Raven would like to see called "the age of biology," he says we must learn to "master the diversity of living organisms and use the properties of those organisms as a kind of palette to build sustainability...
...Raven looks to the wide world to build other countries' capacities for sustainable development. Two areas that he regards as especially critical are Madagascar and the northern Andes. Madagascar has half as many plants as all tropical Africa (about 11,000), and the great majority are found nowhere else. The Missouri Garden has been active there since the early 1970s, helping train and support the country in evaluating and protecting threatened areas. In the northern Andes, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are home to at least one-fifth of the world's biodiversity, including perhaps 60,000 species of plants, endangered...
...share a common environment," he says. "We have to work together if we are to achieve results. Our kids grew up thinking all Israelis were soldiers who wanted to shoot them. Their kids thought all Palestinians were terrorists. We want to promote the environment as a tool to build peace...
...state senator Tom Hayden, who has taken up the issue of toxins in schools. Says Hayden: "They're very focused, very educated, very driven to understand the way the system works around them." The girls have been regulars at hearings the senator has held. Los Angeles plans to build 51 schools over 10 years--some of them possibly on old industrial sites...