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...ready to be euthanized, viability is the play. For some, this means a creative interpretation of the results, such as Senator Joe Lieberman declaring after the 2004 New Hampshire primary that his fifth place finish was, in actuality, "a three-way tie for third place." But there's danger in the viability strategy, danger exemplified by Howard Dean. After finishing a disappointing third in '04, Dean declared: "We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico. We're going to California and Texas and New York, and we're going to South Dakota...
...Reagan coalition is in danger of splintering among economic, religious and national security conservatives - and there is no sign yet that anyone can emerge quickly to patch the pieces together. Tonight, McCain campaign officials were exalting Huckabee's win, because it takes a piece out of Romney as they all head to New Hampshire. "What had to happen tonight happened," said one McCain hand...
...cures in the plant life of the Mabira Forest Reserve, the green, leafy jungle that sprawls through the middle of the country. And so, locals seeking treatments for sexual impotence, cancer, malaria and other illnesses are simply taking plants from the forest, parts of which are already in danger of being razed to make room for the construction of a sugarcane plant...
...need to think about conservation in a scientific way," says Dr Mauda Kamatenesi, a lecturer of botany at Uganda's Makarere University and a lead researcher on Mabira's medicinal plants. Kamatenesi is leading a drive to conserve plants such as Citropsis articulata, or the "sex tree." Also in danger of extinction in Mabira is Pronus africana, which is commonly used to treat malaria and some forms of cancer...
...great deal of the forest may not be around much longer. Over a fourth of the rain forest is in danger of being cleared in order to make way for a sugarcane estate, if a plan by Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is approved. Last year, Museveni ordered a study into the feasibility of clearing 7,000 hectares (17,000 acres) of the forest after a sugarcane company applied for permission to expand its farm. The study concluded that the sugarcane plan endangers rare trees and birds in the 30,000-hectare forest. At risk are 218 species of butterflies...