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...small, isolated reserves, makes big cats more vulnerable to disease. African lions, says Frank, who is also funded by WCS, "are heading toward the tiger situation in Asia--small populations in widely separated national parks. Inbreeding, disease and political instability [which has sometimes disrupted management of parks] will soon destroy those populations...
...sensitive war' will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans." DICK CHENEY, U.S.Vice President, attacking Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry for his promise to fight a "more sensitive war on terror...
...latest cease-fire in Najaf may be a telling measure of the political balance of forces in the new Iraq. Having launched an armored offensive into the Shiite holy city after vowing to destroy Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi militia, U.S. commanders abruptly called a halt to offensive operations on Friday as truce negotiations between Sadr and the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi continued. But a new truce wasn't exactly what Allawi and the Americans had in mind when they vowed earlier in the week to finish the fight and break the back of Sadr's forces...
Antidrug officials say the only way to cut off al-Qaeda's pipeline is to destroy the poppy farms. U.S. military commanders have been reluctant to commit the nearly 20,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan to opium eradication, fearing that doing so would divert attention from the hunt for terrorists. The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has tapped top Drug Enforcement Administration official Harold Wankel to lead an intensified drive to nail kingpins, shut down heroin-production labs, eradicate poppy fields and persuade farmers to plant food crops. If the drug cartels aren't stopped, the U.S. fears, they...
...place that few people ever visit. "The highlands have a great value in themselves, especially because Europe is so densely populated," says Arni Finnsson, chairman of the Iceland Nature Conservation Association, a leading opponent of the Kárahnjúkar project. "This area is far too beautiful to destroy." Environmentalists like Finnsson, supported by the WWF Arctic Program, the International Rivers Network and others, argue that construction will ruin this beauty by redirecting rivers, wiping out waterfalls and wildlife habitats and encouraging soil erosion. But Sigurdur Arnalds, spokesman for Landsvirkjun, the national power company, which is developing...