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...upheaval, like others in the past, will cause the greatest suffering in the Third World. Aside from a handful of oil producers, such as Venezuela, Mexico, Nigeria and Libya, most of Africa and Latin America will be left with higher energy prices and softer markets for their exports. Double-digit inflation could turn into triple digits, recessions could become depressions, and foreign debt would go unpaid...
...prices, which closed at $26.23 per bbl. last week, have jumped about 40% in recent weeks. For the moment, that is far less than the price hikes of the 1970s, which reached more than 300%. Those oil shocks gave rise to the dread combination of high unemployment and double- digit inflation, which became known as stagflation...
More than most other naturalists, Fossey bonded with the subjects of her inquiry. When poachers killed the animals she had named Digit, Uncle Bert and Macho, she turned into a Rambo of animal rights. She beat captured poachers and terrified others with sham witchcraft. She shot at cattle that got too close to her "family's" territory...
...personal, somewhat awkward but elucidating note: in 1984 Fossey wrote me that she had read my review of Gorillas in the Mist over the graves of Digit, Uncle Bert and Macho. "I could finally comprehend," she said, "that the gorilla individuals I had known and named over the years since 1967 might well become public figures, not on a rock-star scale, but renowned for their own worth, lamented for their loss." Postscript: Fossey is buried next to them...
...where, oh, where has my little dog gone?" That old musical question now has a modern answer. A California-based company called Infopet is selling a - computer-age tag: a microchip that is easily implanted between a pet's shoulder blades. The semiconductor carries a ten-digit code, which can be read by a scanner. When the code is punched into Infopet's computers, an animal's finder can obtain such data as the pet's license number, medical condition and, most important, the owner's phone number...