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...also represents the unique challenges that warming will pose for land conservation managers on the front lines of the battle against it. Generations of American conservationists have fought to preserve wildlife and to keep nature pristine in the face of a growing population and pollution. To a remarkable extent, they've succeeded - almost 16% of the entire landmass of the U.S. is protected, and the Endangered Species Act has helped save countless animals from extinction. But global warming threatens to change all that, by altering the very foundation on which the conservation movement was built. What good is a wildlife...
...Most Burmese would happily take one more Cyclone Nargis in place of this regime of military dictators; they are still the Public Enemy No. 1. Their response to the cyclone has nakedly shown to the world the extent of their greed and stupidity. One can only hope that the soldiers serving underneath these thugs will at some point say, for the good of the country, Enough is enough. Kyaw Kyaw, Penang, Malaysia...
...Most Burmese would happily take one more Cyclone Nargis in place of this regime of military dictators; they are still Public Enemy No. 1. Their response to the cyclone has nakedly displayed the extent of their greed and stupidity. One can only hope that the soldiers serving under these thugs will at some point say, for the good of the country, Enough is enough. Kyaw Kyaw, Penang, Malaysia...
...extent of damage done by the Telekom affair can be felt in the emotional responses. Hans-Olaf Henkel, a retired IBM executive and former president of Germany's main business lobby, said what happened at Telekom was "reprehensible and disgusting," comparing it to the "methods of the East German Stasi" secret police. "This is not capitalism," he said. "It's not my understanding of the market economy." If a captain of industry condemns Deutsche Telekom with such vigor, the judgment of the average German is not likely to be any more forgiving...
...what extent can the anger of adolescence be traced to changes going on in the brain at this stage of life? There's a lot of explanations that circle about as to why adolescents are angry. There's the neurological argument, the hereditary argument. Some parents look at their teenage son and say, What have I done? There must be something that I really stuffed up in his childhood for him to be acting this way. The problem with all these explanations is that, while they might have some validity, all of them render the parents powerless to do anything...