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...cattle, which are innocent grass eaters. Goichi Fukui Miura, Japan It is outrageous that any conservationist could condone trophy hunting. Animal charities show their greed if they tolerate this practice. You noted that hunters pay as much as $80,000 to shoot a lion in Tanzania (where the per capita income is around $600). What is an individual's life worth there? Local communities should be encouraged to earn money through sustainable tourism and agriculture. If citizens can support themselves by sharing their wilderness and wildlife with tourists, poaching will decrease. Killing for pleasure sends the wrong message. Helaine Cadman...
...draw, and Peljor outshot No. 13 seed Jocelyn de Grandis of France in the men's. Both lost in the next round, but Chhoden says: "I couldn't have made it here without the scholarship." An Olympic-standard bow costs about $2,000 - nearly three times the annual per capita income in Bhutan. MARIA MUTOLA Olympic Solidarity was the model for the Maria Mutola Foundation, which funds promising young Mozambican athletes. "Solidarity is huge, my foundation is small, but I've tried to do the same thing," she says. None of the five athletes she supports has made the national...
...Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin only begin to address the problem. Before the next presidential election, in 2007, the government says it will force through almost €10 billion in savings by cutting back on reimbursements for visits to specialists, favoring generic rather than brand-name drugs (per capita, the French are the world's most heavily medicated population), and cracking down on liberal sick leave. On top of that, the government wants to haul in another €5 billion in contributions. Beginning next month, patients will pay a single nonrefundable euro for every consultation with a doctor. Doubts have...
...years before those nations are able to fully afford the costs of safer highways. According to a World Bank study last year, if India's current rates of economic growth continue uninterrupted, the country won't hit the critical point at which road death rates begin to improve (per capita income of $8,600) until 2049. Today, one person dies every 6 1/2 minutes on India's roads; by 2020, that figure is projected to reach more than one every 3 minutes...
...China's average annual income per capita...