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Wildlife advocates see two primary solutions. One is to hire more rangers, which seems unlikely in the current budget-cutting climate. The other is to impose tougher federal laws, which now assign penalties as high as $250,000 for felonies and up to five years' imprisonment. Law enforcers also enlist % state laws to prosecute poachers in national parks, but state statutes vary notoriously. Wyoming, for instance, regulates hunters down to the number of shotgun pellets allowed in heavily hunted areas; while Alabama's idiosyncratic "coon on a log" law is more liberal, permitting the maintenance of up to 10 captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Fields | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...ammunition for reformers at the extreme end of the debate who argue for abolishing the welfare system altogether. "How does a poor young mother survive without government support?" asks author Charles Murray. "The same way she has since time immemorial. If she wants to keep a child, she must enlist support from her parents, boyfriend, siblings, neighbors, church or philanthropies. She must get support from somewhere, anywhere, other than the government." In Murray's view, state-run orphanages become the caregivers of last resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare Reform: The Vicious Cycle | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...companion was impressed at the influence wielded by powerful members of the military-industrial establishment eyeing a $100 million deal: overnight the old comrade's network had worked out methods to obtain supplies and components from several different factories to restart production and persuaded the government to enlist the aid of another country to give cover to the sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Trade: Arms Trade | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Davis said she plans to table in various housesand to contact various house committees in aneffort to enlist their support in tabling...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Petition Could Reverse Fee Hike | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...educative goal was also part of the reason why we chose Junior Parents Weekend as a forum for our grievances, the choice reflecting our hope that by alerting the parents to the facts of our situation, we might enlist their influential support. Parent Donna C. Albert put it well, stating, "I thinking they [protesting students] realize that change comes through parents." Ismuk Choi, another parent, told The Crimson that the protests has inspired his plans to write a letter to President Rudenstine "supporting ethnic studies and a more diversified faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Staff Editorial Misrepresented The Goals of Weekend Protest | 3/15/1994 | See Source »

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