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Ethics and Extinction I applaud the tireless efforts to save endangered species and vanishing habitats, which you address in your cover story, but we need to begin to deal with the root problem: the exploding population of human beings [April 13]. How about a sterilization credit, like a carbon credit, to encourage people not to reproduce? We need to export and help finance information about all forms of birth control in all parts of the world, including the U.S. We have no trouble making decisions to limit the numbers of other species we deem overabundant...
...local elections held last Nov. 29 in New Delhi. The polls opened while the siege of Mumbai was still going on, and many political observers expected that the BJP, which had relentlessly portrayed Congress as "soft on terror," would win. Instead, young voters gave the ruling Congress Party credit for the Delhi Metro, a new mass-transit system, and re-elected Sheila Dikshit, the city's 71-year-old chief minister. "Age was not the criteria," Deshmukh says. The calculation was, he explains, much simpler. "If you deliver, you will get my vote...
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...FlyBy feel compelled to give credit where credit is due. The Lampoon did a pretty sick job with what could only have been dreamed up during an acid trip of some sort. Bravo, good sirs. Now, if only you would publish more than five times a year...
...stops at Catalina Island, Santa Barbara and San Francisco, or days at sea, for the usual ports in Mexico. If California is not your idea of an exotic cruise destination, Carnival will waive its cancellation policy and allow customers to reschedule for a later cruise. Princess is offering to credit you back 50% of the fare you paid for a Mexico cruise, which you may use toward any other cruise through April 2011. If you want to cancel altogether, the standard policies apply - unless you bought the Princess Vacation Protection insurance, which gets you a credit...