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The two messages were not as contradictory as they seemed. Both telegraphed the tight political spot in which the President now finds himself, as well as a determination by Obama and his aides to regain the upper hand in time for the upcoming elections. It's a delicate strategy that...
In an Op-Ed published Tuesday in USA Today, John Brennan, the top White House counterterrorism aide, chastised members of Congress for "misrepresenting the facts to score political points" in their criticism of the handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber. Then he added what looked like a...
Imagine a protected park half the size of the continental U.S., covering a sea-life-loaded swath of the Pacific Ocean and the 607 tropical islands therein. The park's inhabitants live mostly in traditional villages and still remember how to do things much of the world has forgotten, such...
If successful, Micronesia will be the first nation to become a wholly protected area, adhering to development and conservation standards designed to safeguard the country's unique culture and rich marine biodiversity and kick-start its placid economy. According to Rice, who once operated an eco-tourism company in the...
The larger question - whether an entire country can declare itself a park without the support of an international conservation body - has, in a way, been answered. "If the government wants to do it, they can do it," says Peter Shadie of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. But that...