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...population today is less than 500,000. Allowing further sales in Zambia and Tanzania - already considered the center of the illegal elephant trade - would likely end up increasing poaching, especially in neighboring nations like Zimbabwe where enforcement is rapidly falling apart. If poaching and trade continue at the current rate, African elephants could disappear from the majority of their range by 2020. "The decisions made at CITES will decide these elephants," says Todd. "It's too late for too many of them...
...cruel joke if it did not so egregiously violate the most basic norms of human decency. Such statements have been echoed by people in power and have even been directed at Israel’s Palestinian citizens: At the same conference in 2003, Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Palestinian citizens of Israel a “demographic threat...
...current junior, the Bantams’ Hathway will most likely be Gemmell’s top competitor next year barring any upstarts in the freshman class. Hathway, ranked 26th in the preseason rankings, worked her way up the ladder, cementing her spot as the No. 1 for Trinity and giving Gemmell a fight in the championship game. The battle went to five games with the Harvard freshman emerging as the winner of the 2010 Ramsay...
...takes its cues largely from Beijing. The central government has continually inserted itself into the process not only by postponing universal suffrage by decree but also by insisting that it must approve any reforms and that the local government can only tinker in limited ways with the current system for now - one reason the current proposals are just token. (Watch a video about democracy in Bhutan...
...Even if the results are accepted, the current pattern suggests bad news for Maliki. It has been widely suggested that most of the potential coalition partners to whom his bloc would turn would insist that Maliki himself step down and accept an alternative candidate for Prime Minister. A frenzy of negotiations among leaders from all the political blocs is already under way, but it could take weeks - even months - to yield a new government. Accusations of ballot fraud could undermine the legitimacy of any new government and also weaken Maliki, who will remain in charge until one is formed...