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...funding a feasibility study into building a dingo barrier fence similar to the dog fence which runs from Queensland to South Australia. Though exclusion fences are notoriously costly to maintain, federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell says pastoralists in the state's northwest and eastern Goldfields region are desperate to combat wild dogs hunting "in plague proportions." There, too, the problem is mixed breeds - Campbell says pastoralists haven't complained about dingoes to him - devastating stock and wildlife. The minister says pest hybrids should be treated differently to native animals - and believes it would be "an absolute tragedy" if the dingo...
...Continent's thrifty consumers are even loosening their purse strings a little. But the European Central Bank (ECB) is not cheering. Last week, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet confirmed to the European Parliament that the bank is planning to raise interest rates in the near future to combat what it sees as growing inflationary pressures. The first hike could come as early as this week. Trichet insisted that rate rises will be limited in scope and that the bank won't follow the lead of the U.S. Federal Reserve, which has ratcheted up rates 12 times since June 2004. Trichet...
According to the Pentagon, less than half of Iraq's forces are combat ready. But that perception may be based on an unnecessarily strict standard. For instance, the Defense Department doesn't consider an Iraqi unit ready to fight until it can sustain itself with supplies, intelligence and communications--a combination that takes U.S. forces years to develop. A Pentagon official said last week that 87,000 of the 212,000 Iraqis that the Defense Department classifies as "trained and equipped" are actually "in the fight," meaning fully capable of planning and waging active combat. The Iraqis have taken over...
...forces. The roads in and out of its base were saturated with improvised explosive devices, says Captain Chas Cannon. At one stage, there were 100 explosions a week. "You expected to get hit ... possibly several times," says Cannon. The roads were closed; some food was rationed. But with aggressive combat operations, sniper assaults and the building of precarious outposts, the 2-69 has regained control of the city's main artery, "Route Michigan," the troops' lifeline. Now they are struggling to keep it open. "Anyone who thinks [Iraq] is going to be won a year from now is mistaken," says...
...your selection of Frenchwoman Maud Fontenoy, who rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a small boat. Certainly she has courage, determination, strength, resilience and stamina, and her long-distance rowing achievements are admirable, but she is no hero. If she channeled her fame into raising money to combat aids or poverty, if she taught sailing to underprivileged teens as a way to help them see beyond the crime and poverty they grow up in, if she did something for someone else besides herself - then maybe she would deserve the term hero. Cindy Wyneken Freiburg, Germany Aging Gracefully...