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Likewise, humans have lent the cork crop a big helping hand. The cork oak tree, whose thick, regenerating bark is shaved off to make cork, covers about 10,400 sq. mi. (2.7 million hectares) in its native Mediterranean habitats of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Italy, Tunisia and France. Yielding cork oaks aren't ever cut down; once a decade or so, their thick bark is harvested in huge strips from the trunk of the tree. Today, the survival of cultivated cork forests, many of which are on private land, depends on their worth. If nobody is buying cork, landowners will...
...call the DREAM Act - which was part of President Bush's failed immigration reform package and is now a stand-alone bill - just another amnesty reward for lawbreaking. But backers say it's a sensible response to a growing national dilemma - and one that rewards "the cream of the crop, the kids who are genuine college material and those who really want to contribute to American society," says Mary Gundrum, FIAC's managing attorney for immigration...
...What will you do to stop the waste and fraud in the government procurement system? -Ronald Bell, los angelesI consider stopping waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars our highest priority. We have held hearings on the waste of dollars in the crop-insurance program and in Iraq contracts with Halliburton. It is shocking that we took $12 billion and sent it to Iraq and as a result we have $8.8 billion that can't be accounted...
...Associate Professor Greg Newbold, a New Zealand criminologist, believes the situation is now beyond control: "They might manage to suppress it in one area temporarily, and it will just crop up again somewhere else. The problem is generated by the cultural milieu and the economic conditions in that area." Newbold speaks with the authority of a man who has done jail time himself for drug dealing and written a book on crime in New Zealand. "This is their excitement. This is their entertainment. This is what they live for. They live for their patch, for their gang and for their...
...properly, how to use a screen, how to play good defense. But more than anything, it was about a huge global company trying to mine a market that it believes, justifiably, has almost limitless potential. Asked during one of the work- outs whether there was anyone in the current crop as good as Yi had been, former NBA star Schrempf answered bluntly - and honestly: "No." When he saw a public relations executive standing nearby cringe a bit, Schrempf smiled and added: "but there will be, don't worry about that. If not this year, maybe next, or maybe the year...