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...void. Raw coca from Bolivia and Peru is plentiful and will remain so. Leaders of the Andean governments have rejected U.S. State Department plans for wholesale eradication, arguing that such an approach would starve and radicalize hundreds of thousands of peasants for whom coca leaves are a valuable cash crop. Moreover, heroin is making a frightening comeback in some areas. Thanks to bumper crops of opium in insurgent-controlled northeastern Burma, Southeast Asian heroin traffickers are flooding New York and New Jersey with moderately priced, high-quality "China White...
Despite the high profile of some recycled radicals, the current crop of dissenters is not limited to the usual suspects. It embraces the National Coalition of American Nuns, the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and the Unitarian Universalists Against Apartheid. "You don't normally see students marching with welfare recipients and trade unionists and veterans," says Stevan Kirschbaum, a Boston bus driver and vice president of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8751. "But it's a reflection of both how broad the movement is now and the lessons that everyone's learned from Vietnam...
...Until the number of squirrels exceeds 450, the number the mountain can support, they will be in jeopardy of extinction," says Warshall. "The squirrels' population has fallen due to a bad cone crop. The extreme fluxuation in their food supply due to tree cutting may cause their population to crash...
...Texas Agriculture Extension Service, "these are bees with an attitude problem." They are more aggressive and can attack an intruder by the hundreds, and kill, when their colony is disturbed. The bees' real threat, however, is to the farming and honey industries: Africanized bees are less efficient crop pollinators and honey producers, and could cause multimillion- dollar losses if they infest the nation's apiaries...
...stars. Like a Renaissance master turning out a whole school of fine painters, he trained a virtual Who's Who of the younger generation: Harry Connick Jr., Terence Blanchard, Marlon Jordan, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, saxman Donald Harrison and flutist Kent Jordan, to name a few. But the most remarkable crop of Marsalis pupils was his own sons: Branford, Wynton, trombonist Delfeayo, 25, and drummer Jason, 13. (Another son, Ellis III, 26, is a computer consultant in Baltimore; Mboya, 20, is autistic and lives at home with his parents...